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Recently, CLPHA held a series of listening sessions to hear members’ concerns with HUD’s proposed NSPIRE Scoring Methodology. CLPHA has prepared comments on the proposed rule for members to review. Members are encouraged to use CLPHA’s letter to guide their own comments. Comments are due to...
On April 18, 2023, the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) convened their first budget hearing for the fiscal year (FY) 2024 request for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Secretary Marcia...
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has declared a state of emergency on homelessness in the city. Host Jeffery K. Patterson sits down with the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) President and CEO Doug Guthrie and CLPHA Executive Director Sunia Zaterman to discuss why homelessness has...
A new article from Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) finds that lower-income renters have less residual income, or the amount of income left over after paying rent and utilities each month, than ever before. According to JCHS’s analysis, the median monthly household...
From HUD’s Office of Policy Development & Research (PD&R):
In 2017, HUD awarded $33 million to 10 Continuums of Care (CoCs) in Round 1 of its Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) to develop and implement coordinated community approaches to preventing and ending homelessness of...
CLPHA would like to welcome our new administrative assistant, Erika Wood! Erika’s primary responsibilities at CLPHA include assisting with daily operations and meeting logistics. You can reach Erika at ewood@clpha.org.
Erika Wood is a graduate from the University of South Florida, where she...
From Axios Cleveland:
At Michael Zone Recreation Center on Cleveland's West Side on Monday, Mayor Bibb passed out boxes of produce to a line of vehicles snaking through the parking lot and onto West 65th Street.
Bibb was on hand for a "produce pop-up," one of three monthly food...
From ABC 10 Sacramento:
The city of Sacramento is breaking ground on a new housing development for people transitioning out of homelessness.
It's called Northview Pointe and it's located in North Sacramento, off Northgate Boulevard near Garden Highway.
Set to open summer 2024,...
From HUD's Choice Neighborhoods Newsletter:
Through Choice Neighborhoods, the Housing Authority of the City and County of Denver (DHA) created a unique fresh foods market in a former food desert. Decatur Fresh Market opened in November 2021 on the ground floor of DHA’s first housing phase. In...