FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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Corporate Communications
Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas
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FHLBank of Dallas Awards $10 Million in Affordable Housing Grants

DALLAS, TEXAS, December 31, 2007– The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas (Bank) announced that it has awarded $10 million in Affordable Housing Program (AHP) grants to 45 projects located in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Texas. These AHP grants will help create or renovate 1,039 housing units.

AHP grants are used to purchase, construct or rehabilitate single-family, transitional and multi-family projects for very low- to moderate-income families. 

Summary by State:

• Arkansas: $1,708,668 for 202 units

• Louisiana: $1,870,966 for 192 units

• Mississippi: $2,290,000 for 221 units 

• New Mexico: $1,493,062 for 164 units

• Texas: $2,688,399 for 260 units

By statute, the Bank returns 10 percent of its profits each year to the communities served by member institutions in the form of AHP grants. In 2007, the Bank awarded a total of $18 million in grants to 99 projects that created or renovated 2,298 housing units. The Bank has awarded more than $164 million in AHP grants since the program began in 1990. Information about the program is available in the Community Investment section of the Bank’s website at fhlb.com.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas is one of 12 district banks in the FHLBank System created by Congress in 1932. The Bank, with total assets of $58.9 billion as of September 30, 2007, is a member-owned cooperative that supports housing and community development by providing competitively priced loans and other credit products to more than 900 members and associated institutions in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Texas. 

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