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Vancouver Housing Authority recently celebrated the opening of an assisted living facility that will house 40 formerly homeless individuals with behavioral health challenges—the first of its kind in Washington state. Prior to constructing Tenny Creek Assisted Living there hasn’t really been a...
From Fox 57 News Columbia:
Columbia Housing, which has provided housing the most vulnerable residents the Midlands community for over 80 years has named a new chief executive officer.
Yvonda A. Bean has been named as the Housing's permanent Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director. Mrs....
In a recent article for Governing, “SRO Housing, Nearly Zoned Out of Existence, Could Re-Emerge,” author Jake Blumgart explores the history and future of single-room occupancy (SRO) units. SRO units are an important form of affordable housing for low-income people. However, beginning in the early...
The ACLU, in partnership with the National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel, recently released a research brief on how access to legal counsel can impact tenants facing eviction proceedings. The authors begin by highlighting several alarming trends from national eviction data released in...
The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) released a new report showing how states and localities are leveraging $350 billion in Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) to invest in affordable housing and homelessness prevention and services. NLIHC tracks SLFRF...
The Terner Center for Housing Innovation released a report exploring how shelter use and perceived safety for individuals experiencing homelessness shifted during the pandemic. Through surveys of 287 homeless individuals in Sacramento between September – October 2021, researchers found that people...
Today, HUD announced that it would provide a $25 million set aside from fiscal year 2022 appropriations for PHAs at risk of experiencing public housing operating funding shortfalls. PHAs that administer the public housing program, including MTW agencies, that meet certain eligibility...
This week, HUD published a Request for Information Notice in the Federal Register on the Build America, Buy America Act (BABA). CLPHA previously reported that on April 29, HUD published a proposed six-month waiver of BABA that will temporarily waive the general applicability of the Act. The...
Recently, CLPHA announced that HUD published the long-awaited Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Final Rule in the Federal Register on May 17, 2022, that made significant changes to program funding, enrollment, escrow calculations, extension and graduation requirements.
The second part of the rule...