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3.19.24 CLPHA Member Update
CLPHA is pleased to share our 2024 policy priorities. The convergence of a global pandemic, a worldwide climate crisis, and growing economic inequality will have a lasting impact on the actions we take to protect lives, reduce disparities, meet energy needs, and prepare for disasters. These events...
1.4.24 CLPHA Member Update
Details will be discussed at the February 6 EHV Working Group Meeting HUD recently published new guidance advising PHAs that administer the Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) program.     Cash Management Requirements Like the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program, HUD controls the...
10.18.23 CLPHA Member Update
PIH Notice 2023-31 explains the process for a second revocation and reallocation of Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) awards for Calendar Year 2024 for PHAs that have 10 or more available EHVs with less than 75% EHV utilization. HUD’s initial revocation of EHV awards targeted PHAs with...
8.30.23 CLPHA Member Update
HUD recently issued PIH Notice 2023-23 on Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) service fees, which makes changes to add two new eligible activities that may be funded with the EHV service fees. The CLPHA EHV Working Group recommended HUD provide additional uses for the special fees, and this...
7.5.23 CLPHA Member Update
PIH Notice 2023-14 details the statutory restriction prohibiting the reissuance of turnover EHVs after September 30, 2023. This notice also provides new guidance for EHV shortfalls and covers circumstances under which a PHA can receive an adjustment to the PHA’s EHV renewal funding during a...
3.27.23 CLPHA Advocacy
Protecting, expanding. and providing affordable housing has never been so important. The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that housing instability and homelessness have disastrous effects on our national economic and public health. Public housing authorities (PHAs) are our nation’s most effective...
3.7.23 Research
A new study published as part of  the Housing Crisis Research Collaborative examined the challenges and successes of Emergency Housing Vouchers (EHVs) to address homelessness. As of February 2023, roughly 67% of awarded EHVs were leased, approximately 30,000 households had received a voucher...
10.26.22 Members Making News
From King County Housing Authority's press release: The King County Housing Authority, in partnership with a number of organizations across the county working to help people experiencing homelessness, has achieved a lease-up rate of 90 percent for the 762 Emergency Housing Vouchers (EHVs) it was...
9.28.22 Members Making News
73-year-old Chicago resident Joe Ann Wilson spent nearly two decades in the same apartment, but during the COVID-19 pandemic she was forced to leave her home due to rising rents and subsequently moved between homeless shelters for a year and a half. With help from Lakynna Dorrough, a rapid...
8.19.22 CLPHA Member Update
HUD recently published new guidance on the process for revocation and reallocation of Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) awards. Notice PIH 2021-15 previously stipulated that “if a PHA fails to lease its authorized EHVs within a reasonable period of time, HUD...

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