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7.21.23 CLPHA Member Update
Recently, HUD sent an email to Executive Directors notifying them of additional time to comply with Sections 102 (Income Reviews) and 104 (Asset Limits) of the Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act of 2016 (HOTMA). This means that PHAs must bring their programs into compliance...
7.21.23 CLPHA Member Update
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...
7.13.23 CLPHA Member Update
Sending Funding Measure to Full Committee  On July 12, 2023, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) held a markup on the Fiscal Year 2024 THUD Appropriations...
7.13.23 CLPHA Member Update
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...
7.13.23 CLPHA Member Update
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...
7.13.23 CLPHA Member Update, Funding Opportunity, Grant
Details on CLPHA’s Green Funding Clearinghouse Housing authorities can now apply for funding for projects to deploy solar energy at multifamily properties. The $7 billion Solar for All program is part of EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF). Interested applicants must submit a Notice of...
7.13.23 To The Point Podcast
The practice of redlining is where public and private officials and professionals designated certain neighborhoods as high-risk largely due to racial demographics. This led to denied loans or significantly higher interest rates in those neighborhoods. It institionalized racial bias, and denied...
7.13.23 Report
A report from the Brookings Institute argues that office-to-residential conversions are one potential remedy to the housing crisis in some circumstances, but the public interest in conversion and the potential beneficiaries must be clearly defined in order to justify any public financial support...
7.13.23 Report
The Urban Institute recently published an interactive guide on policy and programmatic interventions that advance housing justice. The guide contains actionable examples of housing justice interventions across the policy domains of 1) increasing housing supply, 2) homelessness, 3) household and...

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