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Proposed House Funding Levels Will Lead to Extreme Proration
On Thursday, December 7, CLPHA, the MTW Collaborative, the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO), and the Public Housing Authorities Directors Association (PHADA) sent a letter to Congress asking...
On December 6, 2023, the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance held a hearing entitled, “Housing Affordability: Governmental Barriers and Market-Based Solutions.” The hearing primarily focused on discussing government regulations that have contributed to housing...
CLPHA has submitted a statement for the record to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services’ Subcomittee on Housing and Insurance for the committee’s hearing entitled “Housing Affordability: Governmental Barriers and Market-Based Solutions,” held today, December 6...
Comments Due January 30
HUD has proposed a rule that would make permanent the requirement that PHAs provide 30 days’ written notification to tenants facing eviction for nonpayment of rent prior to the commencement of a formal judicial eviction. The proposed rule would apply only to...
HUD has published Notice CPD-2023-12, which provides initial implementation guidance for Build America, Buy America Act (BABA)’s requirements for HUD Community Planning and Development (CPD) grantees. This guidance applies to roughly eighteen CPD programs, which are defined in Section 3 of the...
Unprecedented “Laddered” Approach Will Fund Government for Different Periods of Time
On November 16, 2023, President Joe Biden signed H.R. 6363, the “Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act,”...
HUD recently announced that it will require an additional 41 metropolitan areas to use Small Area Fair Market Rents (SAFMRs). HUD has shared a list of every PHA that will be required to implement SAFMRs. In total, 271 PHAs will be required to implement SAFMRs; 28 of which are...
Unprecedented “Laddered” Approach Seeks to Fund Government for Different Periods of Time
On November 14, 2023, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 6363, the “Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act,” by a bipartisan vote of 336-95 to continue funding the government as...
CLPHA previously announced that HUD published the long-awaited implementation guidance for Sections 102 and 104 of the Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act of 2016 (HOTMA) which specifically address income and assets calculations, rent calculation, and program eligibility. Recently, HUD...
HUD has updated the guidance for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) to allow funding of a wider range of housing-related activities. These include acquisition, adaptive reuse, rehabilitation, reconstruction, housing counseling, and fair housing planning activities. Manufactured...