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HUD issued a letter alerting PHAs of its requirements to review their public housing portfolios in IMS/PIC to ensure units are in the correct Unit Designation Categories and Accessible Designation Categories no later than March 31, 2022. As part of the September 2010 release of IMS...
At this meeting, CLPHA provided a Washington Update on FY22 and FY23 federal appropriations. We were also joined by Betsy McCafferty, Director of Human Resources at Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority and Chair of CLPHA’s HR Working Group, Tracey Knighton, Human Resources Program Manager...
(Washington, D.C.) February 25, 2022 -- Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA) Executive Director Sunia Zaterman released the following statement about President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S...
Skyrocketing Rents and Low Vacancy Rates Cause Delay in Lease-Ups
On February 16, HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) held an industry call to report that in recent months Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) budget utilization rates amongst non-Moving to Work (MTW) public housing authorities...
Two long-serving members of CLPHA’s Board of Directors announced resignations from their positions at housing authorities recently. Antonio (Tony) M. Pérez resigned from his role as Secretary-Executive Director of the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee (HACM), while Rick Gentry also...
Recently, HUD released the 2021 Annual Homeless Assessment Report Part 1 to Congress. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, HUD waived the requirement for communities to conduct the count of unsheltered homelessness in 2021, thereby the report only provides national estimates on sheltered...
To reduce burdensome documentation barriers that have made it difficult for many renters to access emergency rental assistance, the Department of the Treasury introduced fact-specific proxy into its guidance in May 2021, which allows additional methods to verify income eligibility. Specifically,...
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) recently released its monthly House Price Index (HPI) report detailing that house prices have risen nationwide in November, up 1.1 percent from the previous months. Between November 2020 to November 2021, FHFA reports that house prices have increased 17.5...
NYU Furman Center published a report highlighting the impact of land use restrictions on the economy, racial equity, and the environment. By measuring New York City’s housing creation prior to the pandemic, researchers found that housing construction has remained stagnant in the city’s...