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Protecting, expanding. and providing affordable housing has never been so important.
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that housing instability and homelessness have disastrous effects on our national economic and public health. Public housing authorities (PHAs) are our nation’s most effective...
The Public Housing Financial Management Division (FMD) has obligated funding for Partial March and April 2023 and has posted the Explanation of Obligations. Partial March and April obligations are based on the selected elements of final 2022 Operating Fund eligibility and 2023 HUD-52723...
New analysis from the Urban Institute highlights the risk that families in neglected public housing units face from climate change. The majority of public housing residents are people of color, older adults, or people with disabilities, and generations of disinvestment have displaced public...
Yesterday, HUD launched the new online submission module in the Operating Fund (“OpFund”) Web Portal. The new technology is designed to improve how PHAs submit data used to calculate their Operating Fund grants. HUD is hosting training sessions on HUD 52723/52722 online submissions...
From the Oregon Health Authority and Department of Human Services' news bulletin:
In 2017, Home Forward began testing its Portland public housing buildings for radon to prepare for a major rehabilitation project. The agency discovered some buildings had elevated levels of radon, but guidance...
From KARE 11 Minneapolis:
It's been a little more than three years since the fatal fire at Hiawatha Towers in Minneapolis' Cedar Riverside neighborhood.
Five people died in that public housing building the day before Thanksgiving, 2019, and state authorities later determined...
According to a notice published in the Federal Register, participants in the NSPIRE Demonstration who are subject to HUD’s Multifamily Housing Program will receive an inspection of record through the NSPIRE demonstration unless they opt out of the demonstration. HUD intends to conduct...
HUD has announced two Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) for addressing lead-based paint and other housing-related hazards. HUD is sourcing these funds from the Consolidated Appropriations Acts of 2021 and 2022, and the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020. This does not include...
There is still space available at the remaining NSPIRE Get Ready Sessions. Registration is still open for the remaining sessions that are not yet at capacity. The NSPIRE Get Ready sessions are opportunities for PHAs to learn about the changes that NSPIRE will bring, prepare for implementation, as...
Last year, HUD issued guidance that stipulated that PHAs must incur all eligible CARES Act expenses by December 31, 2021. HUD recently issued updated guidance that revises the time available for PHAs to liquidate their CARES Act obligations by April 30, 2023. HUD's latest guidance applies to PHAs...