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Torrance, CA - August 14, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- International real estate investment and services firm Kennedy Wilson has hired Michael Pakravan, a nine-year real estate retail leasing veteran, to join KW Properties Group, the commercial brokerage and property management division of Kennedy Wilson, as vice president.

Torrance, CA - August 14, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Kansas City office of Lee & Associates, one of the largest broker-owned commercial brokerage firms in the country, welcomes Perry H. Trout to the team. With more than 30 years of experience and a wealth of knowledge in real estate investment, finance, asset management and development, Trout comes on board as director of development and investment services.

LOS ANGELES, CA - August 7, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) today issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s speech on housing in Phoenix today:

Torrance, CA - August 6, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- C.W. Driver, a premier builder serving California since 1919, announced today that it has acquired Good & Roberts (G&R), a 34-year-old San Diego based construction company. G&R will operate as a subsidiary, allowing C.W. Driver to expand into new markets and broaden its current San Diego market share. Specific terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 6, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today the Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change released a white paper recommending 20 concrete steps the Department of Energy should take in carrying out the President’s Climate Action Plan. The recommendations include strengthening specific energy efficiency standards, accelerating the development and deployment of low-carbon energy technologies, expanding the use of energy savings performance contracts to save energy at federal facilities, encouraging reforms in state building codes and utility rate structures, maximizing the contribution of power marketing administrations, and analyzing the climate change impacts of liquefied natural gas exports

Washington, DC - August 2, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Congressman Juan Vargas (CA-51) joined fellow Democrats to highlight the devastating effects that cuts to the Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG), being proposed in H.R. 2610, the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act of 2014 (T-HUD) will have on local economies and low-income Americans. If T-HUD is passed, the CDBG program will be cut by nearly 50 percent

Los Angeles, CA - August 2, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- For almost three decades now, NHS has continued making Los Angeles County neighborhoods, neighborhoods of choice by creating BLOC clubs, putting first time homebuyers in homes and revitalizing neighborhoods through Neighborhood Pride Day. NHS is teaming up with over 100 residents, volunteers and local businesses to beautify a block in Compton on

WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 31, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Edwin M. Lee and Supervisor Mark Farrell launched the down payment home loan assistance program for San Francisco first responders who are active member of the San Francisco Police Department, San Francisco Fire Department, or the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department. The Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD) will administer the program, which was created after San Francisco voters overwhelmingly passed the Housing Trust Fund Initiative in November 2012.

Washington, D.C. - July 22, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- This morning, Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) announced the awarding of $2.8 million in grants from the Department of Veterans Affairs to aid homeless and at-risk veterans and their families in Silicon Valley. The funding will be spread across three organizations in the region – the Emergency Housing Consortium of Santa Clara County, Goodwill Industries of Santa Clara County, and Abode Services in Fremont.

Washington, DC - July 19, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- House Democrats, led by Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Maxine Waters, today released a “set of critical core principles” they believe should be part of legislative efforts to address the future of housing finance reform. Since the beginning of the 113th Congress, Democrats on the Financial Services Committee have held a series of briefings, roundtables, and caucuses on housing finance reform. As a result of this work, Committee Democrats have developed principles to guide their consideration of any housing finance reform proposals.

Rancho Cucamonga, CA - July 15, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, House Financial Services Committee Vice Chairman Gary Miller (CA-31) released the following statement regarding the release of a discussion draft by Committee Chairman Hensarling to address the future of the U.S. housing finance system:

WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 12, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) --Governor Brown has signed Assembly Bill 116 (Bocanegra) extending for two years 3,500 existing parcel maps representing 400,000 housing units that can now be constructed.

Long Beach, - July 10, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Housing Authority of the County of Los Angeles (HACoLA) welcomed Congressman Alan Lowenthal to the Carmelitos Public Housing Development (Carmelitos), located in the City of Long Beach and California’s newly-created 47th Congressional District

Washington, DC - July 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-05) today announced a $238,000 federal grant that will provide Sonoma County veterans with job training, job placement, housing and other services. The grant, provided through the Department of Labor (DOL), will be awarded to Vietnam Veterans of California, Inc. in Santa Rosa. The grants were awarded through the Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program (HVRP)

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 28, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Mike Quigley (D-IL) announced that the Appropriations Committee had passed their amendment to the annual Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations Bill which would increase funding for the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) program by $3 million

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 24, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Edwin M. Lee announced the Home Facts Data Standard, which sets a standard for providing public access to building and health code enforcement data. Mayor Lee, as Chairman of the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) Technology and Innovation Task Force, will announce the proposal at the USCM 81st Annual Meeting in Las Vegas and encourage other cities to adopt the standard and release building inspection details to the public.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 19, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Are you a veteran making between $45,000 and $83,650 a year combined family income and dream of owning your own home? Habitat for Humanity San Fernando/Santa Clarita Valley, the local Habitat for Humanity affiliate for North Los Angeles County, in collaboration with the California Department of Veterans Affairs, is building homes for veterans in Sylmar and Santa Clarita. The project in Santa Clarita will consist of an 87-home community and the one in Sylmar will be a 12-home community. These green affordable homes are made available to low to very-low income veterans, their families, and families of the fallen.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 19, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The new budget recently passed by the Legislature and sent to the Governor includes funding for opening of the new Veterans Homes in Redding and Fresno. In preparation, the California Department of Veterans Affairs has been hiring staff and is now ready to take the first applications for members at the new facilities. The Assistant Administrators for the Veterans Home of California Fresno and Redding and staff will be mailing out the applications this week

SAN DIEGO, CA - June 12, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Following a 2012 California law that authorized landlords to prohibit smoking at their rental properties, the San Diego Housing Commission (SDHC) has adopted a smoke-free policy for all SDHC-owned apartment buildings, with the unanimous approval today from the San Diego City Council, sitting as the Housing Authority of the City of San Diego.

Los Angeles, CA - June 10, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- On Monday, June 10, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) will host a Congressional field hearing with representatives from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), homeowners and helicopter pilots to discuss a recent FAA report on the problem of helicopter noise across Los Angeles County. Schiff and Congressional colleagues requested the report in order to develop solutions to the problem of excessive helicopter noise in residential areas