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Following the 15-day required public comment period, HUD has published three final notices detailing waivers of the Build America, Buy America Act (BABA). As CLPHA previously reported, these waivers are for BABA’s Buy America Domestic Content Procurement Preference (“Buy American Preference,”...
CLPHA is seeking feedback for a forthcoming proposed rule on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Dust-Lead Hazard Standards and dust-lead Clearance Levels. EPA anticipates publishing the proposed rule for public comment in spring 2023 and promulgating a final rule by...
HUD Plans to Advance HAP and OpFund Disbursements in Preparation for Short-Term CR
With funding for the federal government due to run out by Friday, December 16, appropriations committee and senior House and Senate...
We were pleased to welcome CLPHA members and invited guests to our jam-packed Fall Meeting in Washington, D.C. last month. With record conference attendance and a robust agenda covering the most pressing topics facing public housing authorities, including the 2022 midterm election results and what...
HUD has just posted the 2022 RAD Contract Rents, which are used to determine the initial contract rents in the Section 8 Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) contract for public housing properties converting under RAD. These amounts will be utilized for any new commitments to enter into HAP or...
Several initiatives are underway at all levels of government to try and solve the dual problems of empty offices and insufficient housing. These include $400 million in incentives for adaptive residential reuse efforts in California’s 2022-24 budget, a hotel-to-housing conversion bill in New York...
A new study from Justice 4 Housing and Harvard Law School’s Tenant Advocacy Project analyzes how barriers to housing can be reduced for people with criminal records in Massachusetts. Housing access is fundamental to reintegrating formerly incarcerated individuals into communities. Research shows...
A new paper published in the Journal of Gerontological Social Work discusses service coordination efforts in HUD-assisted housing during the pandemic. Researchers at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies conducted two surveys of service coordinators who worked with older residents of HUD...
CLPHA has signed on to a letter commenting on the design of EPA’s new Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund in partnership with the Preservation Working Group (PWG). The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund provides $27 billion to the EPA for expenditure until September 30, 2024.
These funds will be for...