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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...
The Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority (AMHA), in partnership with Community Action Akron Summit, is launching a Hotspot Lending Program available to qualifying residents in public housing. This program will provide 1,000 hotspots through a lending library managed by AMHA connecting up to 15...
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,”...
CLPHA is seeking feedback for a forthcoming proposed rule on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Dust-Lead Hazard Standards and dust-lead Clearance Levels. EPA anticipates publishing the proposed rule for public comment in spring 2023 and promulgating a final rule by...
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...
We were pleased to welcome CLPHA members and invited guests to our jam-packed Fall Meeting in Washington, D.C. last month. With record conference attendance and a robust agenda covering the most pressing topics facing public housing authorities, including the 2022 midterm election results and what...