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Housing Is to Host Roundtable on Next Steps on Behavioral Health Integration for PHAs
In 2020, 52.9 million adults were affected by mental illness. However, challenges like access and affordability make it hard for people to access care. Behavioral health has been a major challenge for PHAs...
On September 8, 2022, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the Biden Administration has finalized the rollback of the Public Charge Rule, which previously stipulated that immigrants could be denied permanent resident status if they had received or were expected to receive...
HUD Implements CLPHA Recommendation to Use Private-Sector Rental Data to Better Reflect Rents
Today, HUD published FY23 Fair Market Rents (FMRs) used to determine payment standard amounts for the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program. FMRs are also used for various purposes for...
Today, CLPHA sent a letter to the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees recommending certain authorization and funding levels in their FY23 appropriations bills for HUD’s public housing and related programs as the two bodies...
CLPHA Tells HUD that NSPIRE Isn’t Ready for Rollout, Details Members’ Concerns
CLPHA has submitted a comment letter to HUD on the proposed National Standards for the Physical Inspection of Real Estate (NSPIRE) version 2.2. Members provided feedback to...
CLPHA has submitted a comment letter to HUD on the impacts of the Build America, Buy America Act (“BABA”). While CLPHA is supportive of efforts to strengthen domestic supply chains, BABA ultimately undermines PHAs’ ability to provide safe, decent, affordable quality housing to serve vulnerable...
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CLPHA and our industry partners today sent a letter (and attachments Exhibit 1 and Exhibit 2) to House and Senate Appropriations Committee members asking to include legislative language that prevents HUD from implementing unilateral changes to the ACC...
Today, CLPHA submitted comments to HUD expressing that in recent months our members have reported challenges with protecting their assisted households from evictions while trying to balance HUD’s competing demands to ‘achieve the desired target for tenant rent collection’ as required...
CLPHA is pleased to share our 2022 legislative priorities with our members. These priorities are divided into four categories and will inform our 2022 advocacy on Capitol Hill and at HUD on behalf of public housing authorities, the programs they administer, and the communities and...
Today, CLPHA, the MTW Collaborative, the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO), the Public Housing Authorities Directors Association (PHADA), and the Local Housing Administrators Coalition (LHAC) sent to Congress our joint funding recommendations for...