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HARTFORD - June 26, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Continuing its success in pursuing property deed scams in Connecticut, the Department of Consumer Protection this week issued a Consent Order and Order to Cease and Desist to a second property deed scammer

ROCKY HILL, CT - June 18, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- June is National Homeownership Month and while home prices are at historic lows, many first-time buyers struggle to save enough money for an initial down payment, which continues to be the biggest barrier to homeownership

HARTFORD, CT - June 18, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Governor Dannel P. Malloy today at a bill signing ceremony in Hartford highlighted significant investments the state will be making to its availability of affordable housing under a legislative package approved by the Connecticut General Assembly during the recently adjourned legislative session. Over the past three years, the state has made significantly more investments in housing than it has in decades, an area that the Governor noted is critical to the state’s overall economic development needs.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 10, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General George Jepsen and Consumer Counsel Elin Swanson Katz said today that refunds have been ordered to tenants of a New Haven apartment building who had been billed for heating and cooling costs through a system that represented illegal sub-metering of electricity.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 5, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ELIZABETH JO GUTIERREZ, 47, of Ridgefield, pleaded guilty today before United States Magistrate Judge Donna F. Martinez in Hartford to embezzling $30,000 from the Fairfield Housing Authority

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 5, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General George Jepsen said today that as a result of the national mortgage foreclosure servicing settlement, nearly $7 million is being distributed in Connecticut to approximately 5,000 Connecticut borrowers who lost their homes to foreclosure.

NEW HAVEN, CT - May 29, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) applauded the West Haven Housing Authority today for receiving a $117,274 federal grant to alleviate veteran homelessness. That money means 15 vouchers will be available to get veterans off the streets or out of shelters and into a permanent home.

WASHINGTON, DC - May 24, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Joe Courtney and New London Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio today announced more than $2 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to combat lead paint and other home health hazards in New London. In all, the City of Norwich was awarded $1,829,956 in Lead Based Paint Hazard Control grant program funding and $191,000 in healthy homes supplemental funding. With the funding, the city will address lead hazards in 85 housing units providing safer homes for low and very low-income families with children. The city will also perform healthy homes assessments in 60 units.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - May 24, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Jim Himes (CT-4) announced today two grants totaling $2,499,960 to the City of Bridgeport to remove lead-based paint and other hazards from 110 housing units. The funding, which includes $2,299,960 from the Lead Based Paint Hazard Control Grant program and $200,000 from the Healthy Homes Initiative, will be used to provide safer and healthier living environments for low- and very low-income families with children

WASHINGTON, D.C. - May 21, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General George Jepsen said Connecticut’s distressed homeowners continue to benefit from first-lien principal reductions and other mortgage relief programs resulting from the $25 billion national mortgage foreclosure settlement announced last year

WASHINGTON, D.C. - May 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- At a Special Board meeting held on May 6, 2013, the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority Board of Directors approved the draft 2013 Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP) and Procedures for public comment.

BRIDGEPORT, CT - May 13, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Jim Himes (CT-4) joined Council 4 AFSCME union members and Bridgeport Housing Authority (BHA) tenants in pointing out the increasing damage of sequestration during a press conference today at the Harborview Towers in Bridgeport. BHA residents will suffer dirtier hallways, rundown bathrooms and significantly diminished service if employees are laid off as a result of the federal sequester.

LĪHU'E - April 30, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- County officials are reminding the public that the county’s plans to go paperless with building applications will be moving into the next phase this week

WASHINGTON, DC - April 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Jim Himes (CT-4) announced two grants today totaling $320,000 for local affordable housing organizations. Neighborworks America, a national, federally-funded affordable housing and community development organization, awarded $235,000 to the Housing Development Fund, Inc., of Stamford and $85,000 to the Mutual Housing Association of Southwestern Connecticut, Inc.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 23, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) today applauded the news that Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven, Inc. has been awarded a Capital Grant of $100,000 from NeighborWorks® America. The grant will be used to make low-cost loans available to homeowners in the Newhallville neighborhood of New Haven who want to reinvest in their homes