The Florida Housing Coalition announces an on-line training to help housing administrators organize their SHIP tracking system and prepare their annual reports. This free webinar is especially designed to help new SHIP staff members who have recently been assigned tracking or annual reporting responsibilities. Participants will join a telephone conference call while also observing the training on an Internet website. The session will include

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) with the support of the Bank of America Foundation, will recognize affordable housing developers who are committed to building sustainable communities. The Affordable Green Neighborhoods Grant Program will award grants and provide educational resources to affordable housing developers and related public agencies who choose to pursue LEED 2009 for Neighborhood Development certification

HUD has released the estimated median family incomes (MFIs) and income limits for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010. MFIs are used as the basis for income limits in several HUD programs (including the Public Housing, Housing Choice Voucher, CDBG, and HOME programs), as well as in programs run by the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Treasury, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and Government Sponsored Enterprises