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The MIF also provides mortgage pool and primary insurance for single-family mortgages purchased by SONYMA. The MIF is funded from a surtax on the recording of mortgages in New York State. SONYMA was created in 1970 to stabilize the supply of residential mortgage funding. [4] SONYMA is a subsidiary of New York State Homes and Community Renewal. [5]
HFA and SONYMA are self-funded and do not rely on taxpayer funds. Both agencies issue tax-exempt bonds to provide for their financing. AHC funds are appropriated as part of the State’s annual budget. Funds for SONYMA’s Mortgage Insurance Fund are generated from a portion of the state’s mortgage recording tax surcharge.
The National Community Stabilization Trust (NCST or Stabilization Trust) is a Washington, D.C.–based non-profit organization that facilitates the transfer of foreclosed and abandoned properties from financial institutions nationwide to local housing organizations to promote property reuse and neighborhood stability.
The Homeless Housing and Assistance Corporation (HHAC) is a subsidiary of the HFA that administers the Homeless Housing Assistance Program that was formerly administered by the New York State Department of Social Services. Funding received by the Corporation is used for the purpose of expanding the availability of housing for homeless persons ...
$2 billion for the Neighborhood Stabilization Program to purchase and repair foreclosed vacant housing; $1.5 billion for rental assistance to prevent homelessness; $1 billion in community development block grants for state and local governments; $555 million in mortgage assistance for wounded service members (Army Corps of Engineers)
This is often called the "Small Cities" program, because it includes many small cities and rural counties. [21] Other programs include the CDBG Insular Area Program (for American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands), the CDBG Program Colonias Set-Aside, and the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. [22]
The United States Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (commonly referred to as HERA) was designed primarily to address the subprime mortgage crisis.It authorized the Federal Housing Administration to guarantee up to $300 billion in new 30-year fixed rate mortgages for subprime borrowers if lenders wrote down principal loan balances to 90 percent of current appraisal value.
It was signed into law in 1955 as the Limited-Profit Housing Companies Law. [2] [3] It was later recodified as article II of the 1961 Private Housing Finance Law.[7] [8] Article II Limited-Profit Housing Companies refer to not-for-profit corporations, whereas article IV Limited Dividend Housing Companies refer to non-Mitchell–Lama affordable housing organized since 1927 as business ...