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Today is Giving Tuesday, a global day of donating to charitable causes and nonprofits. We hope you will consider donating to TSAHC as part of this celebration of giving.
All donations to TSAHC will support our Texas Foundations Fund program, which funds critical home repairs and other services that can improve the lives of very low-income Texas families. We invite you to read two stories about the impact the Texas Foundations Fund has on the lives of Texans.
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Mark Your Calendar for the
2017 Texas Statewide Homebuyer Education Program Courses
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Housing and financial counselors, mark your calenders! The dates for the 2017 Texas Statewide Homebuyer Education Program (TSHEP) schedule have been announced!
February 6 - 10, 2017 in Austin (5 Days)
July 24-28, 2017 in Dallas (5 Days)
HO247: Post-Purchase Education Methods ($100)
July 24-26, 2017 in Dallas (3 Days)
HO209: Delivering Effective Financial Education to Today's Consumers ($75)
TSAHC has partnered with
NeighborWorks America to provide these courses. For more information about the courses offered and the different certifications provided by NeighborWorks, including requirements to obtain or maintain a certification and the application form for each, click
here.
Questions? Feel free to
email Sarah Ellinor, or
call her at (512) 220-1171.
Thank you to the following sponsors and partners
for making these trainings possible:
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TSHEP is brought to you by TSAHC in partnership with
the
Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs,
the state agency legislatively responsible for the program.
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Get Social with TSAHC
Stay up to date with TSAHC by following and liking our social media accounts. You can see where we've been, what we've been up to, and get the latest TSAHC and industry news.
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Draft 2017 Multifamily Tax-Exempt Bond Program Policies and
Request for Proposals Available for Public Comment
Until December 1st
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TSAHC has posted the draft of its 2017 Multifamily Tax-Exempt Bond Program Policies and Request for Proposals. The draft is posted for public comment until Thursday, December 1, 2016.
Comments and inquiries for more information may be submitted by email to ddanenfelzer@tsahc.org, by phone at (512) 477-3562, or by mail to the following address:
Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation
Attn: Senior Director of Development Finance
2200 East Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Austin, Texas 78702
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November 30 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 pm. - "Coming Home Again: Designing, Financing and Administering First-Time Home Buyer Programs" at AT&T Conference Center on the University of Texas at Austin campus (1900 University Ave.) Housing counselors, public sector officials, housing program administrators, housing developers, and real estate professionals who focus on serving low- and moderate-income first-time home buyers are encouraged to attend this free event that is made possible by Freddie Mac. More Information and Registration
December 2 and 3 from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. each day - NeighborhoodLIFT® event hosted by Wells Fargo and Tierra Del Sol Housing Corporation at the El Paso Convention Center, Hall A (1 Civic Center Plaza). This event provides information on how to become a homeowner. Attendees can see if they qualify for down payment assistance through the Wells Fargo NeighborhoodLIFT® program. That assistance can be combined with TSAHC's down payment assistance. More Information and Registration
December 6 at 10:00 a.m. - Monthly webinar for REALTORS® and housing counselors on TSAHC Homeownership Programs.
Registration
January 19 at 11:00 a.m. - "Overcoming the Down Payment Hurdle" class in Plano, Texas. The free, interactive session provides one credit of mandatory continuing education (CE). More Information and Registration
January 23 at 10:00 a.m. - "Overcoming the Down Payment Hurdle" class hosted by the Texas Association of REALTORS® in Austin (1115 San Jacinto Blvd., Suite 200). The free, interactive session is offered remotely at any local REALTOR® association office and provides one credit of mandatory continuing education (CE). Contact the Texas Association of Realtors® at 800-873-9155 to register.
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Below are November 2016 excerpts from On the House, a blog TSAHC launched in 2014 on affordable housing topics. We invite you to drop by On the House as we explore important issues, provide an inside look into our programs, and share other valuable resources.
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Hear from Two Families that Are Grateful for Your Support
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For this week's blog post, we would like to share the stories of San Juanita and Pete Ortiz, and Charlee Ross and her son Jonathan, two families who were able to access critical, live changing services thanks to TSAHC's
Texas Foundations Fund
program.
Private grants and donations play an important role in helping TSAHC grow the Texas Foundations Fund. Continue reading below to learn how your support helps Texas families.
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Ending Veteran Homelessness: Where We Are and Where We’re Going
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In honor of Veterans Day, TSAHC would like to bring attention to the serious issue of homelessness that plagues too many men and women who have served and defended this country.
Research shows that, due to poverty and lack of support and social isolation after discharge, veterans are 50% more likely to become homeless than other Americans.
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Years Later Specter of Housing Crisis Remains
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The "Understanding the Subprime Mortgage Crisis" paper
from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis described the housing crisis of the mid-2000s as a "rise and fall of the subprime mortgage market [that] follows a classic lending boom-bust scenario, in which unsustainable growth leads to the collapse of the market."
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