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On June 24, shortly after making the announcement during CLPHA’s 2020 Virtual Summer Membership Meeting, U.S. Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, introduced HR 7301, the Emergency Housing Protections and Relief Act of 2020. ...
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Left: Tracey Scott, Right: Charles Hillman
The Council of Large Public Housing Authorities is pleased to announce that Chicago Housing Authority Chief Executive Officer Tracey Scott and Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority President and Chief Executive Officer...
HUD recently announced the availability of up to $362,000 for one or more grants from FY 2019 funding from the Office of Policy Development and Research for a research project examining long-term outcomes for individuals following their exit from HUD-assisted housing. HUD's research...
The Center on Budget & Policy Priorities' Get It Back Campaign is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, June 23 at 3:00 p.m. ET for stakeholders to explore tools and strategies to conduct stimulus payments outreach in their communities.
Along with guests from United Way...
On Monday, June 22 at 3:00 p.m. ET, HUD PIH staff will be joined by representatives from HHS’s Health Resource Services Administration (HRSA) to provide information about how public housing authorities (PHAs) and Tribal Designated Housing Entities (TDHEs) can encourage and provide telehealth...
On June 9, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled “Oversight of Housing Regulators.” After welcoming Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Ben Carson and the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Mark Calabria, the...
On June 10, the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development, and Insurance held a hearing entitled “The Rent is Still Due: America’s Renters, COVID 19 and an Unprecedented Eviction Crisis.” Referring to low-income renter households, Subcommittee Chairman...
CLPHA Executive Director Sunia Zaterman Praises Waters’ Commitment to Public Housing
Last Friday, Congresswoman Maxine Waters joined Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles President & CEO Doug Guthrie at HACLA’s Avalon Gardens public housing community to...
Sunia Zaterman, Executive Director, Council of Large Public Housing Authorities, provided the following statement in her opening remarks at the Housing Is Summit on the death of George Floyd:
"I would like to address the events of the past week that have roiled our...
Last week, HUD’s Office of Asset Management and Portfolio Oversight (OAMPO) released a memo indicating that HUD will be allocating CARES Act supplemental funding resources for PBRA properties. When CLPHA members learned that HUD was not releasing the funds, they reached out to HUD...