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Today's Notice Supplements July 2020 Implementation Notice
Today, HUD's Office of Public & Indian Housing published its Notice "Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers: Implementation of the Housing Choice Voucher Mobility Demonstration for Awarded PHAs." This notice supplements the July 15,...
On November 18, CLPHA hosted a webinar on Mobility Programs: Best Practices and Lessons Learned with featured guest speakers from King County Housing Authority, Seattle Housing Authority Chicago Housing Authority, and Housing Choice Partners. Each panelist shared...
November 18 | 2-3:30 p.m. ET
Why run a housing mobility program? Housing mobility programs are a way to help families living in disadvantaged areas relocate to better-resourced neighborhoods. However, implementing a successful housing mobility program at a public housing authority is prone...
On November 4, 2021, the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA), Mobility Works, and the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) will host the 8th National Housing Mobility Conference. The virtual event will be held from 12:00 to...
From WHYY Philadelphia:
The Chester Housing Authority is receiving about $3.5 million in federal funding to help dozens of families with young children move into neighborhoods with lower poverty rates and greater job and education opportunities.
It’s part of an effort by the U.S. Department of...
From the Cuhyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority's press release:
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced that the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) has been selected to participate in HUD’s new Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Mobility Demonstration.
HUD’s...
CLPHA congratulates our members who were awarded HUD's Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Mobility Demonstration grants!
CLPHA members awardees include: Chester Housing Authority, Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority, Housing Authority of Pittsburgh, Minneapolis Public Housing Authority, New York...
Wednesday, January 6 | 2:00 p.m. ET
On January 6 at 2:00 p.m. ET, HUD will hold the third and final webinar on the HCV mobility demonstration. The webinar will be primarily focused on a deeper dive on the application requirements and to help PHAs better understand how to submit a proposal to HUD...
When Harvard economist Raj Chetty and colleagues studied areas with high and low rates of mobility back in 2014, they were surprised to find that Charlotte ranked last among the 50 largest metropolitan areas when it came to the odds that low-income children in Charlotte would grow up to...
From Cleveland.com:
A couple years ago, I happened to be in the company of a single mother of two young daughters on the day she found out her long wait for a federal housing voucher had come to an end.
She and her family had been living for years in the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority’s...