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On Wednesday, March 20, 2024, the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities’ (CLPHA) Housing Is Initiative and the Moving to Work (MTW) Collaborative, held a congressional briefing on Capitol Hill entitled “Housing. Education. Health: Cross-Sector Collaboration to Improve Life...
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...
Rise in Homelessness Coincides with Winding Down of Pandemic-Era Supports
HUD has released new data showing that over 650,000 people were experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2023. This reflects a 12 percent increase over 2022 and is the highest number of people...
HUD has published Notice PIH 2023-13, which supersedes PIH Notice 2013-15, and provides PHAs with strategies to use HCVs while working with CoCs to prevent homelessness.
Specifically, this notice:
Revises the definition of homelessness for the purpose of reporting in IMS...
Los Angeles’s new Mayor Karen Bass won on a platform of ending homelessness in the nation’s second largest city. Immediately after assuming office, she proclaimed a state of emergency, thereby unlocking untapped funding and resources. According to media coverage, Mayor Bass succeeded in housing 945...
18 Members Invited to Accept Stability Voucher Awards
Today, HUD announced a second round of CoC grants and Stability Vouchers to communities to address unsheltered homelessness, adding to the first set of grant awards announced in February. The awards include $171.2 million in grants for 115...
On April 10, HUD announced funding for 11,000 new HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) vouchers. In 2022, HUD awarded $25 million in HUD-VASH funding to interested PHAs. This year, HUD is making $94.4 million available in VASH funding under PIH Notice 2023-09. According to the Notice,...
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...
Today, HUD issued a press release announcing $43 million to fund 4000 new incremental vouchers available to PHAs to serve homeless households, including those at-risk of homelessness; fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking; and...
On September 27, 2021, HUD released a Federal Register notice updating HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) guidance from March 2012. This notice also includes new waivers and program flexibilities.
New Waivers and Program Flexibilities...