SBA: Community Navigator Pilot Program Grantees Announced
51 Grantees Selected Nationwide to Serve as Hubs Connecting Disadvantaged Small Businesses with Government Resources Today, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman announced grantees for the Biden-Harris Administration’s Community Navigator Pilot Program, an American Rescue Plan initiative designed to reduce barriers that all small businesses, including those owned by disadvantaged groups such as veterans, women, and those from rural communities and communities of color, often face in accessing critical support. The Community Navigator Pilot Program will provide $100 million in funding to 51 organizations that will work with hundreds of local groups to connect America’s entrepreneurs to government resources so they can recover…
FEMA: President Biden Approves Major Disaster Declaration for Virginia
FEMA announced today that federal disaster assistance has been made available to the Commonwealth of Virginia to supplement commonwealth, tribal and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by flooding, landslides and mudslides that occurred Aug. 30-31, 2021. Federal funding is available to state and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for…
Census Bureau: Analytical Report on the COVID-19 Impact on the 2020 American Community Survey Released
The U.S. Census Bureau today released an analytical report in advance of publishing experimental data from the American Community Survey (ACS), one of the nation’s most comprehensive sources of population and housing information about the U.S. The report, An Assessment of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on the 2020 ACS 1-Year Data, describes how the pandemic…
HUD: Disaster Assistance Announced for Delaware Disaster Survivors
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced the implementation of federal disaster assistance for areas in the State of Delaware affected by the remnants of Hurricane Ida from September 1 to September 7, 2021. On October 25, President Biden issued a major disaster declaration, making federal funding available to state and eligible local…
HUD: Disaster Assistance Announced for Mississippi Disaster Survivors
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced the implementation of federal disaster assistance for areas in the State of Mississippi affected by Hurricane Ida from August 18 to September 1, 2021. On October 23, President Biden issued a major disaster declaration for the counties of Amite, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Pike, Walthall,…
FHFA: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Issued Introducing Additional Public Disclosure Requirements for the Enterprise Regulatory Capital Framework
Today, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced that it is seeking comment on a notice of proposed rulemaking that would introduce additional public disclosure requirements for the Enterprise Regulatory Capital Framework (ERCF) for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises). The proposed rule would implement quarterly quantitative and qualitative disclosure requirements for the Enterprises…
HUD and Census Bureau: New Residential Sales Report for September 2021 Released
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Census Bureau jointly announced the following new residential sales statistics for September 2021: New Home Sales Sales of new single-family houses in September 2021 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 800,000. This is 14.0 percent (±17.9 percent)* above the revised August…
SBA: New Women’s Business Center in Rochester, New York Announced
The new resource hub will increase access to opportunities and recovery solutions for women entrepreneurs in Upstate New York. The U.S. Small Business Administration Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman announced today the launch of a new Women’s Business Center (WBC) in Rochester, NY, which will be operated by the Urban League of Rochester, N.Y., Inc. (ULR). The new…
SBA: National Veterans Small Business Week Scheduled for November 1st through 5th
Events will highlight the Agency’s efforts to support the Nation’s Nearly 1.8 million veteran-owned small businesses through its 22 Veterans Business Outreach Centers The U.S. Small Business Administration will celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit and resilience of our veteran small business owners during National Veterans Small Business Week, Nov. 1-5, 2021. “National Veterans Small Business Week is a time…
FHFA: House Price Index Up 1.0 Percent in August 2021; Up 18.5 Percent from Last Year
House prices rose nationwide in August, up 1.0 percent from the previous month, according to the latest Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (FHFA HPI®). House prices rose 18.5 percent from August 2020 to August 2021. The previously reported 1.4 percent price change for July 2021 remained unchanged. For the nine census divisions, seasonally adjusted monthly house price changes from…