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On Monday evening, Congress released its $1.7 trillion spending bill for 2023, which included $72 billion in funding for for HUD, a $6.4 billion increase over FY22.
According to HUD, in FY23 housing authorities are experiencing or are at-risk of experiencing significant financial shortfalls in...
The Biden-Harris Administration released a strategic plan to reduce homelessness by 25% by 2025 on the same day that HUD released its 2022 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) Part 1 to Congress. The AHAR report found that from 2020 to 2022 the number of...
HUD recently hosted a briefing with U.S. Treasury representatives on using State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) and Emergency Rental Assistance for affordable housing development and preservation. SLFRF can be layered with other sources of capital, and can finance...
Today, HUD published an early preview of the FY22 Family Unification Program (FUP) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to allow interested applicants additional time to submit questions and prepare applications. HUD intends to publish the NOFO and allow submission of applications in...
Following the 15-day required public comment period, HUD has published three final notices detailing waivers of the Build America, Buy America Act (BABA). As CLPHA previously reported, these waivers are for BABA’s Buy America Domestic Content Procurement Preference (“Buy American Preference,”...
HUD Plans to Advance HAP and OpFund Disbursements in Preparation for Short-Term CR
With funding for the federal government due to run out by Friday, December 16, appropriations committee and senior House and Senate...
HUD has just posted the 2022 RAD Contract Rents, which are used to determine the initial contract rents in the Section 8 Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) contract for public housing properties converting under RAD. These amounts will be utilized for any new commitments to enter into HAP or...
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...
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...