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HUD Adjusted HIP Implementation Plan Based on Input from the Working Group
This week HUD provided the IT Working Group with a preview of the implementation plan for the Housing Information Portal (HIP), which will soon replace the aging IMS/PIC system. The IT Working Group...
Home Forward CEO Ivory Mathews joined To The Point host Jeffery K. Patterson for a conversation about the Reimagining Home Forward Initiative. Ivory discusses how the initative addresses systemic racism by "calling up, calling out" racial injustices in Home Forward's history and is forging an...
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...
The Veterans Administration (VA) has published updated HUD-VASH guidance allowing PHAs with unleased HUD-VASH vouchers to serve as Designated Service Providers (DSPs) for the purposes of veteran selection and intake. The new HUD-VASH Operating Requirements provide new authorization...
HUD has launched a new website detailing protections against Source of Income (SOI) discrimination for families using Housing Vouchers, continuing its recent initiatives to combat SOI discrimination.
The Source of Income Protections website serves as a “one-stop...
Today, the Biden Administration released its budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25). For the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Budget requests $72.6 billion in discretionary budget authority for FY25, a $2.531 billion increase or 3.6 percent increase from the FY24 enacted...
MTW Contracts Extended, RAD Sunset Date Extended, Public Housing Fund Increased Over FY23 Levels
On March 8, 2024, after four continuing resolutions to keep the federal government funded, the U.S. Congress, in overwhelming bipartisan votes in both the House and Senate, passed H.R...
On March 5, the U.S. Department of the Treasury updated the Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) FAQs to clarify that grantees may use their ERA2 award funds to cover expenses for the acquisition of real property and predevelopment activities to enable construction, rehabilitation, or preservation of...
On Sunday evening, March 3, 2024, House and Senate appropriators released the first set of fiscal year 2024 (FY24) appropriations bills, which includes Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD). The bipartisan set of six appropriations bills are expected to be voted...