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9.14.23 CLPHA Comments, CLPHA Advocacy, CLPHA Member Update
Letter Asserts Data Sharing Is Crucial to Streamlining Program Access and Administration CLPHA and the MTW Collaborative have submitted comments on how HUD can improve access to public benefit programs. The letter highlights the importance of data sharing to...
9.12.23 Report
HUD’s Worst-Case Housing Needs Report to Congress measures the extent of unmet housing needs across the United States. The 19th biennial report found that in 2021, a record 8.53 million unassisted renter households had incomes below half the local median income and paid over half their income for...
8.10.23 CLPHA Advocacy, CLPHA Member Update
CLPHA Needs to Hear from You on HOTMA 104’s Potential Impacts HUD recently published guidance titled “Public Housing and Housing Choice Voucher Program List of Discretionary Policies to Implement HOTMA,” which requires PHAs that administer the public housing and Housing Choice Voucher (HCV)...
8.3.23 Funding Opportunity, CLPHA Member Update
Deadline to Apply is October 30, 2023 HUD has announced the availability of $85 million in planning grants through the new Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing (“PRO Housing”) program. The PRO Housing Program...
7.28.23 CLPHA Advocacy, CLPHA Member Update
CLPHA Leads on PHA Access to DOE Funding   The U.S. Department of Energy’s State and Community Energy Programs (SCEP) office has launched two energy rebate programs that offer a total of $8.5 billion in point-of-sale rebates. Thanks to CLPHA’s  advocacy, public housing and buildings...
7.28.23 CLPHA Member Update
Key Steps Include Streamlining Financing for Affordable Housing Creation, Offering Green Funding Opportunities, and Repairing and Expanding Affordable Housing Through RAD     Yesterday, the Biden-Harris Administration announced new actions to its Housing Supply Action Plan to lower...
7.27.23 Report
A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) outlines how HUD should improve its data collection to better understand requests for reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities and how PHAs are meeting these requests across the Public Housing, Voucher, and PBRA programs....
7.26.23 CLPHA Member Update
Public Housing and Voucher Funding Increased Over FY23 Levels  On July 20, 2023, the U.S Senate Committee on Appropriations held a full committee markup of their version of a Fiscal Year (FY24) Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) appropriations bill...
7.24.23 CLPHA Comments, CLPHA Member Update
Today, CLPHA submitted comments on a Federal Register notice regarding changes to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. On April 25, HUD issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) announcing its intention to update Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973...
7.21.23
On July 20, 2023, the U.S Senate Committee on Appropriations held a full committee markup of their version of a Fiscal Year (FY24) Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) appropriations bill. The measure was passed by the full committee on a bi-partisan vote...

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