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The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) released a new report showing how states and localities are leveraging $350 billion in Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) to invest in affordable housing and homelessness prevention and services. NLIHC tracks SLFRF...
The Terner Center for Housing Innovation released a report exploring how shelter use and perceived safety for individuals experiencing homelessness shifted during the pandemic. Through surveys of 287 homeless individuals in Sacramento between September – October 2021, researchers found that people...
Today, HUD announced that it would provide a $25 million set aside from fiscal year 2022 appropriations for PHAs at risk of experiencing public housing operating funding shortfalls. PHAs that administer the public housing program, including MTW agencies, that meet certain eligibility...
This week, HUD published a Request for Information Notice in the Federal Register on the Build America, Buy America Act (BABA). CLPHA previously reported that on April 29, HUD published a proposed six-month waiver of BABA that will temporarily waive the general applicability of the Act. The...
Recently, CLPHA announced that HUD published the long-awaited Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Final Rule in the Federal Register on May 17, 2022, that made significant changes to program funding, enrollment, escrow calculations, extension and graduation requirements.
The second part of the rule...
CLPHA previously reported that on May 10 HUD announced the FY22 Choice Neighborhoods (CN) Planning Grant Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). In FY 21, HUD PIH shared they received less than the anticipated number of applications. HUD expects that thanks to increased appropriations from...
While public housing authorities have long known that digital access is critical to improve life outcomes for low-income individuals and families, recent increases in federal resources dedicated to broadband access are creating new awareness about its untapped potential.
Last year, the Biden...
CLPHA is pleased to welcome Malcolm Guy as its new Policy and Research Analyst! Malcolm joins CLPHA with experience in development finance, specializing in research and advocacy for locally driven financing initiatives and programs. Malcolm also has a background in government and legislative...
The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) released a new report that summarizes emergency rental assistance (ERA) spending trends, projects when state and large local grantees may exhaust their ERA1 and ERA2 funds, and estimates the amount of funding the U.S. Department of the Treasury (...