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HUD recently announced a proposed rule entitled “Equal Access in Accordance with an Individual’s Gender Identity in Community Planning and Development Programs (CPD) Rule (Gender Identity Rule).” The 60-day comment...
The Section 811 Project Rental Assistance (PRA) Program seeks to identify, stimulate, and support successful and innovative state approaches to providing integrated supportive housing for people with disabilities. PRA funds are awarded to state housing agencies that set aside units in affordable housing projects whose capital costs are funded through federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, federal HOME funds, or other state, federal, a...
HUD recently announced a proposed rule that would require public housing authorities that administer public housing to implement a smoke-free policy. This proposed rule would apply to all public housing, other than dwelling units in mixed-finance buildings. HUD is proposing the implementation of smoke-free public housing to improve indoor air quality in the housing, benefit the health of public housing residents and PHA staff, reduce t...
A recent report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) finds that the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program, as now administered, does not deliver adequately on its potential to expand children’s access to good schools in safe neighborhoods that encourage upward mobility. In 2014, approximately 280,000 children in the HCV program live in extreme-poverty neighborhoods despite the better options that a voucher should m...
The Social Security Administration recently announced that with consumer prices down over the past year, monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for nearly 65 million Americans will not automatically increase in 2016.
An analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) and new data from HUD show that agencies restored 30,000 vouchers to low-income families over the past year. This amounts to approximately one-third of the 100,000 vouchers cut in the 16 months after sequestration took effect in March 2013.
A study from Arizona State University, Affordable Housing and Walkable Neighborhoods: A National Urban Analysis, shows that 23 percent of all renter-occupied housing in the United States is located in neighborhoods with walkable access to services and amenities, including schools, parks, and grocery stores.
Q: HUD won’t approve withdrawals from the residual receipts account for making mortgage payments when a mortgage default has occurred or is about to occur. True or false?
A: False. The Handbook lists two permissible uses for residual receipts that apply to all sites. HUD should approve withdrawals from the residual receipts account for:
The Public Housing Authorities Directors Association, a group representing housing authorities across the country, recently sent a letter to HUD Secretary Julian Castro and members of Congress stating that a report highlighting “over-income” tenants that triggered a change in policy was deeply flawed.
At HUD’s recent 2015 Fair Housing Policy Conference, HUD Secretary Julian Castro highlighted some of the progress made since the passage of the Fair Housing Act in 1968 and the pro-active steps taken to promote greater housing choices for all. “We’ve come a long way since 1968. For example, this past June, the Supreme Court upheld the disparate impact standard, making it clear that the Fair Housing Act pro...
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