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CLPHA submitted comments to HUD on its proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Fair Market Rents for the Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCV), Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy Program, and Other Programs for the Fiscal Year 2023. Every year, HUD calculates and sets Fair Market Rents (FMRs)...
Meeting topics include various updates from CLPHA on HUD policy and programs, plus the latest developments in Washington, D.C. We cover issues such NSPIRE, FY23 Appropriations, FY23 FMRs, and the Public Housing Operating Fund.
Lessons From a Historic Decline in Child Poverty, a new report from Child Trends, found that housing assistance played a significant role in reducing childhood poverty. The report examines the effects of social safety net programs on the Supplemental Poverty Measure from 1993 – 2019. Overall,...
HUD’s recently released 2019-2020 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress applied new methods to distinguish demographics and trends among people who use emergency shelters, safe havens, and other traditional housing programs.
The report found that 2020 saw approximately 1.25 million...
The National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA) released a report last week on how housing finance agencies (HFAs) are filling funding gaps. The urgent need for more affordable housing units has been exacerbated by market conditions, a growing shortfall of Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (...
Housing Is to Host Roundtable on Next Steps on Behavioral Health Integration for PHAs
In 2020, 52.9 million adults were affected by mental illness. However, challenges like access and affordability make it hard for people to access care. Behavioral health has been a major challenge for PHAs...
CLPHA is pleased to announce that HUD has extended certain regulatory waivers for the Housing Choice Voucher and Mainstream Voucher programs through December 31, 2023. CLPHA previously reported that HUD was extending the streamlined review process and deadlines for certain regulatory...
HUD announced this week that 18 PHAs have been selected for a new Asset Building cohort as part of an expansion of the Moving-to-Work (MTW) Demonstration Program. This new MTW cohort will evaluate asset-building activities that encourage assisted households to create and grow savings accounts and/...
73-year-old Chicago resident Joe Ann Wilson spent nearly two decades in the same apartment, but during the COVID-19 pandemic she was forced to leave her home due to rising rents and subsequently moved between homeless shelters for a year and a half.
With help from Lakynna Dorrough, a rapid...