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Several initiatives are underway at all levels of government to try and solve the dual problems of empty offices and insufficient housing. These include $400 million in incentives for adaptive residential reuse efforts in California’s 2022-24 budget, a hotel-to-housing conversion bill in New York...
A new study from Justice 4 Housing and Harvard Law School’s Tenant Advocacy Project analyzes how barriers to housing can be reduced for people with criminal records in Massachusetts. Housing access is fundamental to reintegrating formerly incarcerated individuals into communities. Research shows...
A new paper published in the Journal of Gerontological Social Work discusses service coordination efforts in HUD-assisted housing during the pandemic. Researchers at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies conducted two surveys of service coordinators who worked with older residents of HUD...
CLPHA has signed on to a letter commenting on the design of EPA’s new Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund in partnership with the Preservation Working Group (PWG). The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund provides $27 billion to the EPA for expenditure until September 30, 2024.
These funds will be for...
From the City of Austin's Office of Telecommunications & Regulatory Affairs' newsletter:
The Housing Authority of the City of Austin and Head of Strategic Initiatives Catherine Crago hosted a reception for Paloma Perez on Tuesday, Nov. 22 at the Henry Flores Education and...
HUD has awarded $30 million in funding to hire and maintain Service Coordinators who will assess the needs of residents of conventional Public Housing and assist in coordinating community resources. The ROSS-SC awards will go to 111 Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) among other entities to...
Last year, HUD issued guidance that stipulated that PHAs must incur all eligible CARES Act expenses by December 31, 2021. HUD recently issued updated guidance that revises the time available for PHAs to liquidate their CARES Act obligations by April 30, 2023. HUD's latest guidance applies to PHAs...
HUD recently published its annual notice that provides PHAs with instructions for calculating Public Housing Operating Fund (OpFund) Subsidy Grants for Calendar Year (CY) 2023 and establishes submission deadlines.
For HUD to determine the amount of OpFund subsidy grant eligibility, PHAs...
From the Miami Herald:
Julio Banegas, 86, spent the Miami summer relying on the breeze to stay cool in a second-floor apartment because his landlord, the federal government, rented the unit without air-conditioning.
“It got tremendously hot,” Banegas said in Spanish on Monday. “I used lots of...
From the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator's press release:
The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) and the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA), in partnership with Pedal Movement, officially launched a new, first-of-its-kind zero-emission, micro-mobility pilot,...