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ATLANTA, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta (FHLBank Atlanta) announced today that it will award $3.6 million to fund 9 affordable housing developments in Alabama. The funding is part of more than $43 million FHLBank Atlanta will award in ten states to create or preserve 4,514 units of affordable housing.

FHLBank Atlanta will award the funds as part of its 2008 Affordable Housing Program (AHP) offering. Local community developers, in partnership with FHLBank Atlanta member institutions, will use the funding to build or repair 351 affordable housing units in Dallas, Geneva and Jefferson counties, as well as the cities of Birmingham, Butler, Dora, Greensboro, Jackson, Selma, and Tallassee.

"AHP funding not only helps bring affordable housing to areas that have the greatest need, but also provides an important economic boost to entire communities," said Arthur Fleming, first vice president and director of Community Investment Services, FHLBank Atlanta.

AHP is a competitive funding program that helps develop owner-occupied and rental housing for very low-, low-, and moderate-income families. FHLBank Atlanta awards the funds annually to member financial institutions and their community housing partners. AHP is a component of FHLBank Atlanta's affordable housing, economic development, and down-payment assistance initiatives. For the complete list of AHP winners, visit www.fhlbatl.com/ahp.

About FHLBank Atlanta

FHLBank Atlanta offers competitively-priced financing, community development grants, and other banking services to help more than 1,200 member financial institutions make affordable home mortgages and provide economic development credit to neighborhoods and communities. The Bank's members-its shareholders and customers-are commercial banks, credit unions, savings institutions, thrift and loans, and insurance companies headquartered in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. FHLBank Atlanta is one of 12 district banks in the Federal Home Loan Bank System which since 1990 has contributed more than $3 billion to the Affordable Housing Program.

Some of the statements made in this press release may be "forward-looking statements," which include statements with respect to the Bank's beliefs, plans, objectives, goals, expectations, anticipations, assumptions, estimates, intentions, and future performance, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which may be beyond the Bank's control, and which may cause the Bank's actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements.

The forward-looking statements may not be realized due to a variety of factors, including: future economic and market conditions; changes in demand for advances or consolidated obligation; changes in interest rates; legislative and regulatory changes; political, national and world events; and adverse developments or events affecting or involving other FHLBanks or the FHLBank System in general. Additional factors that might cause the Bank's results to differ from these forward-looking statements are contained in the Bank's annual and quarterly reports, available on the Bank's website at www.fhlbatl.com.

                          Alabama 2008 AHP Winners

    City/County Project Name   Member        Sponsor            Award    Total
                                                                         Units

    Birmingham  Monterey       Regions Bank  Aletheia House     $775,000   32

    Butler      Pinebrook      Regions Bank  West Alabama       $413,156   53
                Apartments                   Affordable Housing
                                             Corporation

    Dora        Walker         Regions Bank  Paladin, Inc.      $360,000   40
                Terrace

    Geneva      Alabama        Colonial      Alabama            $400,000   40
    County      Habitat for    Bank          Association of
                Humanity - 1                 Habitat Affiliates

    Greensboro  Canterbury     Regions Bank  West Alabama       $381,031   45
                Apartments                   Affordable Housing
                                             Corporation

    Jackson     Windsor        Regions Bank  West Alabama       $314,754   45
                Apartments                   Affordable Housing
                                             Corporation

    Jefferson   Alabama        Colonial      Alabama            $200,000   20
    County      Habitat for    Bank          Association of
                Humanity -                   Habitat Affiliates
                Jefferson and
                Dallas

    Selma       Magnolia       Regions Bank  Paladin, Inc.      $324,000   36
                Senior
                Village

    Tallassee   The Crossing   Compass Bank  National           $390,000   40
                at Westdale                  Affordable Housing
                                             Preservation
                                             Associates