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From the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh's website:
The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP) WiFi On Wheels (W.O.W.) CyberBus is hitting the road for our nation’s capital to convene with national colleagues during the annual ConnectHomeUSA Summit.
Staff will travel to...
HUD has published 2025 Operating Cost Adjustment Factors (OCAFs) for Section 8 project-based assistance contracts and multifamily projects. The national average OCAF rate will be 4.8% in 2025. These OCAFs will apply to contracts that have an anniversary date on or after February 11...
Negotiations to finalize Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) spending bills are currently ongoing in Congress. Facing a December 20 deadline to fund the government and avoid a shutdown, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has publicly called for passing another continuing resolution (CR)...
Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb sits down with CLPHA President Jeffery K. Patterson to discuss the efforts of the National Housing Crisis Task Force to put forward bipartisan solutions to the nation's affordable housing crisis. As co-chair of the Task Force, Mayor Bibb highlights the important...
According to the Harvard Joint Center on Housing Studies, housing cost burdens again reached record-high levels in 2023, with 42.9 million households spending more than 30% of their income on housing. Researchers used 2023 American Community Survey data to measure the cost burdens of renters and...
PAHRC and NLIHC released the 2024 Picture of Preservation Report, which analyzes the latest data from the National Housing Preservation Database (NHPD) to assess the existing federally assisted housing stock and the specific preservation risks faced by these homes, including expiring affordability...
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) published its 2024 Annual Report to Congress, which finds that the agency continues to play a critical role in supporting home financing for first-time and underserved homebuyers. The report found that in fiscal year (FY) 2024, the FHA supported 766,942...
AAFs Effective Today
HUD released the Annual Adjustment Factors (AAFs) for fiscal year (FY) 2025 in the Federal Register, which are effective today, December 3. AAFs established by this notice are used to adjust contract rents for units assisted in certain Section 8 housing assistance payment...
From the District of Columbia Housing Authority's press release:
Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development (DMPED), alongside the District of Columbia Housing Authority (DCHA) and nonprofit developer Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH...