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1.2.24 CLPHA Member Update
HUD has awarded Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) renewal funding to 753 Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) and Multifamily Property Owners totaling $120 million. The funding will be used to support 1,380 FSS Coordinators around the country. All renewal applicants were granted the full amount for which...
11.15.23 CLPHA Member Update
HUD has published the updated Family Self-Sufficiency Achievement Metrics (FAM) Scores in the Federal Register. HUD has also re-calibrated the baseline for determining FAM Scores using the PIH Information Center (PIC) data through 2019. The FAM Score consists of three components: Earnings...
1.30.23 CLPHA Member Update, Members Making News
HUD has announced a total of $116 million in Family Self Sufficiency (FSS) Program awards to 714 PHAs. The awards include $109 million to 682 PHAs for the 2022 Renewal FSS Program, and an additional $6 million to 32 PHAs and 38 Project Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) owners for the 2022...
8.4.22 CLPHA Member Update
In May, CLPHA announced that HUD released the long-awaited FSS Final Rule that made significant changes to the program, including changes to FSS escrow account requirements. Recently, HUD published additional guidance related to the establishment of the FSS escrow account, the use of forfeited FSS...
6.2.22 CLPHA Member Update
Recently, CLPHA announced that HUD published the long-awaited Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Final Rule in the Federal Register on May 17, 2022, that made significant changes to program funding, enrollment, escrow calculations, extension and graduation requirements. The second part of the rule...
5.16.22 CLPHA Member Update
The long-awaited Family Self-Sufficiency Final Rule will be published in tomorrow’s Federal Register. The pre-publication copy of the rule released today highlights that the rule will implement many changes to the FSS program, including:   changing the methodology for determining...
10.15.21 CLPHA Member Update
This week, HUD sent out a reminder that annual reports for ROSS grantees are due on October 31, 2021. HUD also reminds ROSS grantees that performance data must be submitted through GrantSolutions, and financial reports (SF-425) must be submitted to your local HUD Field Office....
9.16.21 CLPHA Member Update
For those applicants located in presidentially declared disaster areas, HUD is extending the deadline for the FY21 Resident Opportunity and Self-Sufficiency (ROSS) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to October 1, 2021. Published in July, the FY21...
7.12.21 CLPHA Member Update, Report
On July 6, HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) published the second report on the national evaluation of the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program titled Work, Engagement, and Well-being at the Midpoint: Findings from the Family Self-Sufficiency Evaluation. In 2012, HUD...
3.26.21 CLPHA Member Update, CLPHA Advocacy
CLPHA has signed onto a letter to HUD leadership, organized by Compass Capital, that provides recommendations to HUD for implementation of the increased Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) funding received in FY21. In FY21, FSS received $105 million, a 30% increase...

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