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HUD recently published guidance (PIH Notice 2022-02) advising PHAs that Public Housing Assessment Systems (PHAS) assessments will resume in 2022 for PHAs with fiscal years ending (FYE) March 31, 2022. Through its authority granted by the CARES Act, HUD previously suspended PHAS...
On Thursday, March 4, CLPHA hosted a call for members to review a proposed rule on the NSPIRE demonstration and changes to inspection standards. HUD is proposing a consolidation of requirements for property conditions into a single regulation and other regulatory...

On Thursday, March 4, at 1:00 p.m. ET, CLPHA will host a call for members to review a proposed rule on the NSPIRE demonstration and changes to inspection standards. HUD is proposing a consolidation of requirements for property conditions into a single regulation and other regulatory...
Today, HUD issued a notice proposing the consolidation of requirements for physical conditions into a single regulation and other regulatory changes that would integrate standards from the National Standards for the Physical Inspection of Real Estate (NSPIRE)...
Yesterday, HUD issued PIH Notice 2020-31, which provides guidance to PHAs on conducting Remote Video Inspections (RVIs). The guidance cover four phases:
Administrative preparation
Pre-Inspection Planning
Performing the Inspection
Post-Inspection
The notice also covers best...
HUD to Host Webinar on REAC Inspections on Thursday, August 13
In an August 6 call with industry groups, PIH staff shared a plan to resume REAC inspections beginning on October 5, 2020. REAC will prioritize Multifamily priorities with a history of low scores and will...
From REAC: Until further notice, the Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) is postponing all property inspections on all Public-housing, Multi-family and Servicing Mortgagee properties.
In response to industry feedback, REAC has released newly updated health and safety standards for the NSPIRE Demonstration, a voluntary pilot program testing a new protocol that would eventually replace current UPCS inspections practices. As described in our August 2019 update, REAC is evaluating a...

On November 20, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report updating the U.S. House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development and Insurance on the status of recommendations that the agency made to HUD in two previous reports regarding the Department’s...

Yesterday, CLPHA submitted comments in response to HUD’s notice outlining the first details of the NSPIRE demonstration. NSPIRE is a voluntary demonstration, expected to last at least two years, that would replace UPCS inspections for participating properties. NSPIRE is intended to simplify the...