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The housing authority and its nonprofit Bridgeview are focused on helping those who are unemployed or underemployed build self-sufficiency
To build up the child care workforce, Vancouver Housing Authority is financially incentivizing tenants who become employed in a...
Project SOAR Closeout Site Visit Summary
Program Evaluation Division, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
June 2020
The Resident Opportunities and Self-Sufficiency for Education (ROSS-ED) Project SOAR grant program was an effort to improve access to higher education...
Yesterday, the House and Senate passed a spending package that includes FY21 funding for HUD programs and additional COVID-19 relief. On December 27 President Trump signed the package. See CLPHA’s summary of the spending package below.
On Tuesday, CLPHA sent to the Agency Review Team our recommendations for public and affordable housing for the Biden-Harris administration. Our recommendations are based on what we have heard from our members about the challenges they face, and solutions they offer. The document begins...
On August 28, HUD issued PIH Notice 2020-21, which describes the application process for PHAs eligible to apply for admission to the second cohort under MTW expansion. PHAs eligible to apply for Cohort 2, which will focus on alternative rent structures, were selected among agencies...
In tomorrow’s Federal Register, HUD will publish its operations notice for the MTW expansion. This final notice addresses feedback HUD received from its October 2018 notice, for which CLPHA submitted comments.
The notice describes ...
CLPHA, Industry Groups, 777 Public Housing Authorities Implore Congress to Provide an Additional $8.5B in Emergency Supplemental Funding for PHAs Plus Longer-Term Preservation Resources for Public Housing in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic
On Wednesday, April 8, CLPHA and other...
The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP), a Moving to Work (MTW) agency, has been working in partnership with the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Middle Atlantic Region (NNLM MAR) to improve digital and health literacy within their...
HUD has provided a path forward for a first-in-the-nation partnership between Minnesota’s largest public housing authorities: the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA) and the Metropolitan Council Housing and Redevelopment Authority (Metro HRA). HUD stated that they are supportive in concept...
Public Housing ACC and Mixed Finance Amendment to the ACC
On Friday, November 8, 2019, HUD published proposed revised forms of the Public Housing Authority Annual Contributions Contract (“ACC”) and Mixed Finance Amendment to the ACC (“MFACC Amendment”) for public review and comment. The...