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From the Chicago Housing Authority's press release:
For the second year, the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) partnered with the Daisie Foundation, a non-profit that specializes in random acts of kindness, for a special Mother’s Day Makeover Celebration honoring 100 CHA residents Wednesday at ROW...
Meeting held May 23, 2022. Meeting topics include various updates on HUD policy and programs, highlights from CLPHA’s 8th Annual Housing Is Summit, and discussions on digital equity strategies and administrative fee funding for supportive services.
Today, CLPHA submitted comments to HUD expressing that in recent months our members have reported challenges with protecting their assisted households from evictions while trying to balance HUD’s competing demands to ‘achieve the desired target for tenant rent collection’ as required...
On May 19, HUD issued its annual Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) renewal funding notice that describes the allocation methodology for calculating CY22 Housing Assistance Payments (HAP) renewal funds, administrative fees and the new funding to support 25,000 new incremental vouchers to low-income...
The long-awaited Family Self-Sufficiency Final Rule will be published in tomorrow’s Federal Register. The pre-publication copy of the rule released today highlights that the rule will implement many changes to the FSS program, including:
changing the methodology for determining...
On April 29, HUD published a proposed six-month waiver of The Build America, Buy America Act (BABA) that will waive the general applicability of BABA to provide HUD with additional time to solicit and evaluate the potential impact of the Act.
BABA was enacted as part of the Infrastructure...
Today, HUD released its latest update to the EHV Dashboard to provide a summary, at the PHA-level, of the reported expenses for the EHV administrative and service fee. As a reminder, PHAs must report EHV Service Fees expenses each month in the EHVP tab of VMS. For more information on ...
On May 10, HUD announced the FY22 Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grant Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). Thanks to increased appropriations from Congress, this year HUD has doubled the allocation for Planning Grants to $10,000,000. Planning Grants are two-year grants up to $500,000 each that...
This week, the Biden administration announced a $14.2B investment in a new federal subsidy program to help assisted households pay for internet services. Accepted by most Internet Service Providers (ISP), the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) gives public housing and Section 8 residents $30 a...
The job announcement is available at https://www.usajobs.gov/job/653577500. The application deadline is 6/6/22.
The Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Housing Investments reports to the General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing. The primary responsibility of the position...