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Wednesday, September 20 | Washington, D.C.
Make plans to join us in Washington, DC September 20th for the 9th National Conference on Housing Mobility at a time of exciting momentum in our field. Hosted by PRRAC, Mobility Works, CLPHA and NAHRO.
Featuring a keynote address by Professor...
HUD announced that it will make available $25 million to PHAs for HUD's Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Mobility Services. An estimated 6,000 voucher families will receive access to vouchers. The process and eligibility requirements to apply for HUD's HCV Mobility Services funding can be...
HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) published a report detailing findings on the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) Choice Mobility Implementation. RAD residents have a right called choice mobility, which allows them to request tenant-based rental assistance after living...
A Housing Mobility Toolkit has been published on the HUD Exchange. The Toolkit contains a Program Manual that describes best practices and emerging practices on how Housing Mobility Program staff should deliver services to participating families, a Program Setup document, and materials...
Protecting, expanding. and providing affordable housing has never been so important.
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that housing instability and homelessness have disastrous effects on our national economic and public health. Public housing authorities (PHAs) are our nation’s most effective...
From the Boston Herald:
Boston housing officials and city-based nonprofit Economic Mobility Pathways are seeking more participants for a mentoring program aimed at helping low-income Bostonians out of poverty.
Within its first year, roughly 50% of the 266 participants in the program, dubbed ‘AMP...
From Mobility Works:
HOUSING MOBILITY TRAINING INSTITUTE
October 24-25, 2022 • Baltimore, MD
Designed to help mobility program staff build skills and connections, the Institute will be led by practitioners, advocates, and policy experts and will include time for network building and peer...
Today's Notice Supplements July 2020 Implementation Notice
Today, HUD's Office of Public & Indian Housing published its Notice "Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers: Implementation of the Housing Choice Voucher Mobility Demonstration for Awarded PHAs." This notice supplements the July 15,...
On November 18, CLPHA hosted a webinar on Mobility Programs: Best Practices and Lessons Learned with featured guest speakers from King County Housing Authority, Seattle Housing Authority Chicago Housing Authority, and Housing Choice Partners. Each panelist shared...
November 18 | 2-3:30 p.m. ET
Why run a housing mobility program? Housing mobility programs are a way to help families living in disadvantaged areas relocate to better-resourced neighborhoods. However, implementing a successful housing mobility program at a public housing authority is prone...