[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 182 (Thursday, September 19, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 57650]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-22817]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5700-FA-11]


Announcement of Funding Awards for the Self-Help Homeownership 
Opportunity Program (SHOP) for Fiscal Year 2013

AGENCY: Office of Community Planning and Development, HUD.

ACTION: Announcement of funding awards.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this announcement 
notifies the public of the Department's funding decisions with respect 
to the Fiscal Year 2013 (FY2013) Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) 
for the Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program (SHOP) that was 
posted on the Grants.gov Web site. This announcement contains the names 
and addresses of the recipients of the FY2013 SHOP grant awards.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ginger Macomber, SHOP Program Manager, 
Office of Affordable Housing Programs, Department of Housing and Urban 
Development, 451 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC 20410-4500, 
telephone (202) 402-4605. Hearing or speech-impaired individuals may 
access this number via TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Information 
Service at (800) 877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SHOP program provides federal grants on 
a competitive basis to national and regional nonprofit organizations 
and consortia to undertake self-help homeownership housing programs. 
Grantees may carry out SHOP activities directly and/or distribute SHOP 
funds to local nonprofit affiliate organizations. SHOP Grant funds must 
be used for land acquisition, infrastructure improvements, and for 
reasonable and necessary planning, administration and management costs 
(not to exceed 20 percent). The average SHOP Grant expenditure for the 
combined costs of land acquisition and infrastructure improvements must 
not exceed $15,000 per SHOP unit. The construction or rehabilitation 
costs of each SHOP unit must be funded with other leveraged public and 
private funds.
    Low-income homebuyers must contribute a significant amount of sweat 
equity towards the development of the SHOP units. Sweat equity involves 
participation in the construction of the housing, which can include, 
but is not limited to, assisting in the painting, carpentry, trim work, 
drywall, roofing, and siding for the housing. Reasonable accommodations 
must be made for homebuyers with disabilities. Labor is also 
contributed by community volunteers. The SHOP funds together with the 
homebuyer's sweat equity and volunteer labor contributions 
significantly reduce the cost of the housing for the low-income 
homebuyers.
    SHOP units must be decent, safe, and sanitary non-luxury dwellings 
that comply with state and local codes, ordinances, and zoning 
requirements, and with the SHOP requirements (including requirements 
for energy-efficiency and water conservation). The SHOP units must be 
sold to homebuyers at prices below the prevailing market price. A 
homebuyer's sweat equity contribution must not be mortgaged or 
otherwise restricted upon future sale of the SHOP unit.
    HUD awarded FY2013 SHOP grants to the following self-help housing 
organizations in accordance with the competitive criteria set forth in 
the FY2013 SHOP NOFA.

 
 
 
Community Frameworks, 409 Pacific Avenue Suite 105,           $1,579,500
 Bremerton, WA 98337....................................
Habitat for Humanity International, 270 Peachtree Street       7,700,637
 NW., Atlanta, GA 30303.................................
Housing Assistance Council, 1025 Vermont Avenue NW.,           2,846,803
 Washington, DC 20005...................................
Tierra del Sol Housing Corporation (lead entity),               666,929.
 Western States Housing Consortium, 210 East Idaho
 Avenue, 880 Anthony Drive, Las Cruces, NM 88005........
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    Total...............................................      12,793,869
 

    These organizations propose to distribute their SHOP grant funds to 
over a hundred local affiliates and consortium members that will 
acquire and prepare land for development, provide homebuyer counseling, 
select homebuyers, coordinate the homebuyer sweat equity and volunteer 
labor efforts, and assist in arranging interim and permanent financing. 
At least 718 units of self-help homeownership housing will be completed 
and conveyed to low-income homebuyers.

    Dated: September 11, 2013.
Mark Johnston,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs.
[FR Doc. 2013-22817 Filed 9-18-13; 8:45 am]
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