Protect, Expand, Provide: CLPHA's 2023 Policy Priorities
3.27.23
Protecting, expanding. and providing affordable housing has never been so important.
Public Housing
FMD Posts Explanation of Partial March and April 2023 Operating Fund Final Obligations
Analysis: Neglecting Public Housing Leaves Families Vulnerable to the Effects of Climate Change
2.23.23
HUD Launches New OpFund Web Portal
Home Forward's radon procedures manual inspires state protocol
2.7.23
From the Oregon Health Authority and Department of Human Services' news bulletin:
In 2017, Home Forward began testing its Portland public housing buildings for radon to prepare for a major rehabilitation project. The agency discovered some buildings had elevated levels of radon, but guidance on addressing it was limited.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) had issued recommendations for radon testing in 2013, but there was no requirement specific to testing public housing properties.
Sprinkler funding now secured for all public housing high-rises in Minneapolis
1.24.23
From KARE 11 Minneapolis:
It's been a little more than three years since the fatal fire at Hiawatha Towers in Minneapolis' Cedar Riverside neighborhood.
Five people died in that public housing building the day before Thanksgiving, 2019, and state authorities later determined that their lives could have been saved had sprinklers been installed.