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The Center on Budget Policy and Priorities (CBPP) hosted a webinar on local strategies for Child Tax Credit outreach on August 3. Local communities, including city governments, shared how they are conducting outreach and providing hands-on assistance to help ensure all eligible...
Media Contact:
David Greer, CLPHA
dgreer@clpha.org
(202) 550-1381
For Immediate Release
July 30, 2021
(Washington, D.C.) July 30, 2021 – CLPHA Executive Director Sunia Zaterman...
Seventeen months after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, public housing agencies (PHAs) have been forced to quickly adjust their operational policies and procedures to protect their staff, residents and property owners, while...
From Jersey City, NJ Mayor Steven Fulop's press release:
Mayor Steven M. Fulop and the Jersey City Housing Authority (JCHA) announce the latest Jersey City COVID-19 Rent Relief Program, which will provide up to $10,000 in much-needed rental assistance to low-income Jersey City...
From the Louisville Courier Journal:
Wearing a mask and disposable gloves, Makeeba Edmund approached an apartment door and looked for the best place to leave her card.
On it was her contact information and title: eviction prevention specialist for the Louisville Metro Housing Authority....
HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) announced $20 million in available grant funds for non-profit or governmental entities to provide free legal assistance to low-income residents at risk of or subject to eviction. HUD expects to make 20 awards, grant amounts...
From the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB):
The federal government is conducting an all-out push to make sure tenants and landlords take advantage of the historic funding for emergency rental assistance to help cover rent, utilities, and other housing costs and keep people in their...
From HUD PIH:
You are invited to join representatives from HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing and the U.S. Treasury to hear about promising practices from Public Housing Agencies and Emergency Rental Assistance program grantees. Presenters will include agencies working together to help...
As the CDC eviction moratorium ends, PHAs will likely be contacted by the media and local stakeholders for information about how PHAs are handling evictions. To prepare our members for these types of inquiries, CLPHA has prepare a brief that PHAs can share with the media...
From HUD PIH:
You are invited to join representatives from HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing and the U.S. Treasury to hear about promising practices from Public Housing Agencies and Emergency Rental Assistance program grantees. Presenters will include agencies working together to help...