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President-elect Joe Biden selected Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge as his Housing and Urban Development secretary. Fudge is a former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and was just elected to a seventh term representing a majority Black district that includes parts of Cleveland and Akron. If confirmed, Fudge will be the first woman to lead HUD in more than 40 years and the second Black woman in history to lead the department. Biden’s transition team issued the followi...

AHEPA Affordable Housing Management Company (AMC) has announced that very low-income senior residents and personnel of the company’s 91 HUD Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly sites nationwide are set to receive critical COVID-19 vaccination services provided and administered as part of the Pharmacy Partnership for Long-term Care Program.           

On Nov. 27 HUD published a notice in the Federal Register that establishes operating cost adjustment factors (OCAFs) for project-based assistance contracts issued under Section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 and renewed under the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (MAHRA) for eligible multifamily housing projects having an anniversary date on or after Feb. 11, 2021.

The Innovation for Justice (I4J) Program at the University of Arizona and the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) recently released a research report entitled, “Costs of Covid-19 Evictions.” It highlights some of the public costs of eviction-related homelessness that the United States will incur if adequate rental assistance and eviction protection is not provided.

HUD published a notification in the Federal Register to establish an expedited process for the review of requests for relief from HUD Section 8 and public housing requirements by public housing agencies located in counties that are included in presidentially declared major disaster declarations in calendar years 2020 and 2021.

The share of voucher holders covered by voucher protection laws is growing, according to a recent report from The Urban Institute and the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC). Their dataset and accompanying report entitled, “State and Local Voucher Protection Laws,” compile state and local laws that prohibit discrimination by...

Despite the important focus on COVID-19, lead safety in the home remains a high priority for all Americans. HUD has joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and additional partners, in highlighting this issue during National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week (NLPPW) 2020, which runs from Oct. 25 - 31.

The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA), the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California, and BLDS, LLC filed a federal lawsuit to challenge HUD’s recent revisions to the final disparate impact rule that shifted the burden of proof from owners and financial institutions to the victims of discrimination.

HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing is encouraging owners to inform residents of the eviction protections under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) order and the required declaration form. In particular, owners of HUD-assisted sites who are notifying residents that their tenancy will be terminated for nonpayment of rent or fees while this order remains in force should inform residents of the protections available to them under this order and shoul...

The Social Security Administration recently announced the Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) for 2021. Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for approximately 70 million Americans will increase 1.3 percent in January 2021. Increased payments to more than 8 million SSI beneficiaries will begin on Dec. 31, 2020. The Social Security Act ties the annual COLA to the increase in the Consumer Price Index as determined by the Department of Labor’s ...