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On September 30, the U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) oversight of CARES Act funds. The CARES Act appropriated $12.4 billion to HUD to help...
Yesterday, HUD published an interim final rule requiring landlords of public housing and project-based rental assistance (PBRA) properties to extend the time period before lease termination for nonpayment of rent to a minimum of 30 days after the tenant has...
On October 7, the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs led by Chairman Sherrod Brown (D-OH) held an in-person hearing on presidential nominations, including James Arthur Jemison II to be Assistant Secretary of Public and Indian Housing at the U. S. Department of Housing and...
This Monday, the U.S. Treasury Department published guidance for the reallocation of the $25 billion in Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) funds provided in the ERA1 program, authorized by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. That legislation...
CLPHA has joined organizations representing housing authorities and administrators to urge Congress to keep housing funding in the Build Back Better Act.
Housing is at serious risk of being removed from the Build Back Better Act, under consideration in the budget reconciliation negotiations...
CLPHA has been made aware that funding for housing is at serious risk of being removed from the Build Back Better Act under consideration in the budget reconciliation negotiations currently underway in Congress and the White House. ...
This month, two members of the Housing Crisis Research Center (HCRC) - Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley and the NYU Furman Center – released a comparative brief documenting the declines in rent payments and the increase in rental arrears among a...
(Washington, D.C.) October 1, 2021 -- Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA) Executive Director Sunia Zaterman released the following statement urging Congress not to cut proposed funding for public housing and rental assistance in the...
As the September 30 deadline quickly approaches for when the U.S. Treasury Department must begin to recapture and reallocate funds from grantees unwilling or unable to spend down from the original Emergency Rental Assistance Program (known as ERA1), the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is...
A recent poll commissioned by the Opportunity Starts at Home campaign, a bipartisan group led by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and other steering committee partners, found that nearly 9 in 10 (89%) of ...