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Q: HUD says you may charge late fees to households that don’t pay their rent by the end of the fifth day of the month, but HUD limits the total late fee you may charge in any one month to:
On Sept. 18, Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas, introduced H.R. 5632 “to reform and update the flat rent structure for public housing.” The bill was referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. Neugebauer is the Chair of the Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance of the House Financial Services Committee.
On Sept. 18, the Senate passed by a vote of 78 to 22 the House-passed continuing resolution (CR), H.J. Res. 124. The CR continues funding all federally funded programs through Dec. 11, 2014, at slightly below FY 2014 funding levels, on an annualized basis. The House passed the CR on Sept. 17.
HUD, in collaboration with the Rockefeller Foundation, recently announced the National Disaster Resilience Competition. The competition will award nearly $1 billion in HUD disaster recovery funds to eligible communities across the nation. HUD states the competition will help the selected communities recover from previous disasters and improve their ability to respond to and recover from natural hazards in the future.
In celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, HUD, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released “Five Years of Learning from Communities and Coordinating Federal Investments,” a report demonstrating how the three agencies are cooperating to help communities provide more housing choices, make transportation systems more efficient and reliable, and cr...
HUD recently announced that it has reached a Voluntary Compliance Agreement with the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee (HACM), resolving HUD findings the housing authority failed to comply with Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968. HACM agreed to change its hiring and contracting practices to increase the hiring of public housing and other low-income residents, as well as contracting with businesses that employ low-income persons.
On Aug. 15, HUD published a notice in the Federal Register requesting comments on the Proposed Fair Market Rents (FMRs) for fiscal year (FY) 2015. The primary uses of FMRs are to: (1) determine payment standard amounts for the Housing Choice Voucher program; (2) determine initial renewal rents for some expiring project-based Section 8 contracts; (3) determine initial rents for housing assistance payment contracts in the Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupanc...
Q: The move-out of a household member will always lower the household’s rent, because you no longer are including the former member’s income in your rent calculation. True or false?
Reps. Dennis Ross, R-Fla.;, Jim Himes, D-Conn.; John Delaney, D-Md.; Sean Duffy, R-Wis.; Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo.; and Ann Wagner, R-Mo. recently introduced “Pay-for-Success” legislation (H.R. 5104 ) to increase energy efficiency in multifamily rental housing.
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