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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...
9.7.23 CLPHA Member Update
From HUD Office of Public & Indian Housing Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Richard J. Monocchio's August 31 email to public housing authorities: On Overdose Awareness Day, HUD recognizes the importance of national and local efforts to prevent overdose...
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...
2.7.23 Members Making News
From the Oregon Health Authority and Department of Human Services' news bulletin: In 2017, Home Forward began testing its Portland public housing buildings for radon to prepare for a major rehabilitation project. The agency discovered some buildings had elevated levels of radon, but guidance...
1.18.23 CLPHA Member Update
HUD has announced two Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) for addressing lead-based paint and other housing-related hazards. HUD is sourcing these funds from the Consolidated Appropriations Acts of 2021 and 2022, and the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020. This does not include...
1.28.22 Notice / Announcement, CLPHA Member Update
HUD recently announced $4 million in new funding is available for PHAs to conduct testing and as-needed mitigation of radon in the units that they manage and, where applicable, to support the development of a plan for future testing and mitigation. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
2.8.21 CLPHA Member Update
From HUD's Office of Lead Hazard Control and Health Homes: Radon is a radioactive gas that cannot be seen, smelled or tasted. It is a natural substance that can be found in the dirt and rocks beneath houses, in well water and in some building materials. Because it is a gas, it can seep into your...
1.8.20 Members Making News
Two recent online publications have featured residents of the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority’s (CMHA) Woodhill Homes and their experiences living in public housing. As part of a series of stories about the community and its residents published in tandem with CMHA’s two-year, $350,000...
12.4.19 Report
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...
9.12.19 Members Making News, Awards/Grants
From the Toledo Blade: The Lucas County Metropolitan Housing Authority has received nearly $1 million in grant funding to identify and reduce lead-based paint hazards. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Monday awarded $970,225 to the local housing authority as part of a total...

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