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CLPHA Needs to Hear from You on HOTMA 104’s Potential Impacts
HUD recently published guidance titled “Public Housing and Housing Choice Voucher Program List of Discretionary Policies to Implement HOTMA,” which requires PHAs that administer the public housing and Housing Choice Voucher (HCV)...
PHAs Must Apply for Shortfall Funds by August 17
PIH Notice 2023-18 implements a provision from the FY2023 Appropriations Act that makes available $25 million for PHAs experiencing or at risk of financial shortfalls in their Public Housing Operating Funds (OpFunds). The 2023 shortfall...
Feedback Needed by July 18
Recently, HUD published its Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) to seek public input on forthcoming changes to Section 504 regulations, which prohibits disability discrimination in programs receiving HUD funds or financial assistance. HUD intends for the...
HUD has published Notice PIH 2023-17, which contains new guidance on the Utility Rate Reduction Incentive (RRI) in public housing. The RRI provides additional Operating Fund grant formula eligibility to a PHA that undertakes a special and significant action to reduce its utility rate. Through the...
HUD has published the final NSPIRE Scoring Notice for public inspection in the Federal Register today. The scoring notice outlines the scoring methodology, the sampling strategy, and the justification for scoring decisions. The final Scoring Notice contains several important changes from the...
HUD has published the NSPIRE Administrative Procedures Notice, which covers the process and operational requirements for Public Housing and Multifamily properties including Sections 202 and 811. PIH Notice 2023-16/H 2023-07 contains information on the inspection process. It...
CLPHA has launched a new Green Funding Clearinghouse for member PHAs to easily view funding opportunities for green energy, climate resiliency, and disaster recovery. With a wide variety of funding opportunities across multiple federal agencies now available to PHAs, CLPHA has created...
From the New York Times:
Tearing down public housing has become something of a national trend, except in New York, where the New York City Housing Authority has held onto its stock of aging buildings even as repair bills and tenant complaints mount.
But that may be changing.
NYCHA is...
From the Boston Globe:
Almost a quarter-century ago, the word came down from Washington, D.C.: The federal government was done building public housing.
A new law capped the number of deeply affordable apartments Washington would subsidize in any given city at whatever existed in 1999,...
PHAs Must Be Ready to Comply with New Standards Starting July 1
HUD has published the Final Inspection Standards Notice for the National Standards for the Physical Inspection of Real Estate (NSPIRE). The final inspection standards notice describes the list of inspectable...