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HUD has released the Notice of Funding Opportunity for the Fiscal Year 2022 Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grants. The FY22 Choice Neighborhoods program was appropriated $350 million – the highest amount since the program’s first appropriation in FY10. A prior Planning Grant award is not...
HUD has awarded $10.4 million to PHAs for capital improvements in public housing developments that will enhance safety and security for residents. These funds are being awarded through HUD’s Capital Fund Emergency Safety and Security Program, and they support the Biden-Harris Administration’s...
HUD Notice 2022-31 increases the total amount of funding available for new Mainstream Vouchers to $48 million, an increase of $8 million. No new applications for Mainstream Vouchers are being received through this notice.
This funding increase builds on two prior funding increases for Mainstream...
CLPHA and Reno & Cavanaugh submitted joint comments to HUD on the proposed streamlining of the mixed financing documents for public housing developments. These documents govern the various types of mixed-finance deals that include public-private partnerships and were last updated in 2018. HUD...
CLPHA submitted comments to HUD on its proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Fair Market Rents for the Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCV), Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy Program, and Other Programs for the Fiscal Year 2023. Every year, HUD calculates and sets Fair Market Rents (FMRs)...
Meeting topics include various updates from CLPHA on HUD policy and programs, plus the latest developments in Washington, D.C. We cover issues such NSPIRE, FY23 Appropriations, FY23 FMRs, and the Public Housing Operating Fund.
Lessons From a Historic Decline in Child Poverty, a new report from Child Trends, found that housing assistance played a significant role in reducing childhood poverty. The report examines the effects of social safety net programs on the Supplemental Poverty Measure from 1993 – 2019. Overall,...
HUD’s recently released 2019-2020 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress applied new methods to distinguish demographics and trends among people who use emergency shelters, safe havens, and other traditional housing programs.
The report found that 2020 saw approximately 1.25 million...
The National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA) released a report last week on how housing finance agencies (HFAs) are filling funding gaps. The urgent need for more affordable housing units has been exacerbated by market conditions, a growing shortfall of Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (...