CLPHA Advocacy

As expected, HUD’s proposed modifications to the Equal Access Rule are as discriminatory and transphobic as the announced proposal from two weeks ago. Tomorrow, HUD will publish a 

CLPHA Executive Director Sunia Zaterman Praises Waters’ Commitment to Public Housing 

Last Friday, Congresswoman Maxine Waters joined Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles President & CEO Doug Guthrie at HACLA’s Avalon Gardens public housing community to distribute UHC’s cloth masks to residents. HACLA has received 25,000 masks from UHC so far, and thousands more masks are coming soon. 

Last week, HUD’s Office of Asset Management and Portfolio Oversight (OAMPO) released a memo indicating that HUD will be allocating CARES Act supplemental funding resources for PBRA properties.

To: 

Members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs  
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services  
Members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations  
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations  

From: 

 Sunia Zaterman, Executive Director, Council of Large Public Housing Authorities  
Gerard Holder, Legislative Director, Council of Large Public Housing Authorities  

Thanks to the generosity of UnitedHealthcare Community & State, 45 PHAs will receive a total of 176,000 non-surgical, washable cloth masks, manufactured by clothing company Hanes, to share with their communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.