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HUD recently released HUD Housing Notice 2016-09, Streamlining Administrative Regulations for Multifamily Housing Programs. The notice provides guidance regarding the implementation of the Streamlining Final Rule. According to HUD, the Streamlining Rule will allow for improvements in program operations that reduce costs and enhance efficiency while maintaining HUD’s core program oversight functions. There are 16 programmatic changes found in this final rule, four ...

The Fair Housing Act of 1968 requires jurisdictions receiving federal funds for housing and urban development to affirmatively further fair housing (AFFH). The Fair Housing Act not only makes it unlawful for jurisdictions to discriminate, but also requires jurisdictions to take actions to undo historic patterns of segregation and other types of discrimination, as well as to take actions to promote fair housing choice and to foster inclusive communities.

The news coming out of Flint, Mich., this year has brought much attention to the harmful effects lead poisoning can have on young children. According to calculations from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, switching to the Flint River as the city’s primary water source in an attempt to save around $5 million over the course of two years has, instead, cost $458 million. Only $58 million of that is expenditure by the state on medical care a...

HUD’s Enterprise Income Verification (EIV) system contains a number of reports used to verify employment and income of applicants and residents. HUD asks owners to use EIV to monitor compliance of existing residents. Every month, owners and agents are required to view and catalog certain reports periodically in a separate “Master File.” This file is separate from the tenant file, which contains detailed reports for members of that tenant’s househ...

The Housing Assistance Payments (HAP) contract is a written agreement between a public housing agency (PHA) and the owner of a unit occupied by a Housing Choice Voucher program participant. The HAP contract must be in the form prescribed by HUD. Under the HAP contract, the PHA agrees to make housing assistance payments to the owner on behalf of a specific family leasing a specific unit.

HUD recently released a new version of HUD Form 92006. This new form has an expiration date of Feb. 28, 2019. A copy of HUD Form 92006 must be attached to application/pre-applications. Owners should discard any unused version of the form with an expiration date of Nov. 13, 2015, and replace unused forms with this new version. HUD Forms 92006 that have already been completed by applicants and residents don’t have to be replaced.

HUD recently released a new version of HUD Form 9834—Management Review for Multifamily Housing Projects. Form HUD-9834 is used by performance-based contract administrators (PBCAs) for management reviews of assigned Section 8 contracts. The new form fixes typos and provides a new expiration date. This new form has an expiration date of April 30, 2018.

All Management and Occupancy Reviews conducted from May 17, 2016, must use this new version of the form. All ...

The Department of Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2014, made several changes to the United States Housing Act of 1937. Five streamlining changes were implemented through a Federal Register notice on June 25, 2014. And on Jan. 6, 2015, HUD issued a proposed rule codifying these changes and proposing additional changes to streamline existing regulatory requirements.

HUD is amending the inspection protocol requirements to be followed by all Uniform Physical Condition Standards (UPCS) inspectors who conduct physical inspections of HUD-assisted and -insured properties. In 2010, HUD issued Inspector Notice 2010-01 establishing requirements when an inspector is informed of bed bugs at a site that is being inspected. Those requirements addressed reporting of bed bugs and the conduct of inspections. The new notice amends the requirements ...

HUD recently issued a new notice regarding the passbook savings rate, effective Feb. 1, 2016. The passbook savings rate hasn’t changed since 2014. The passbook savings rate to be used for all move-in, initial, annual, and interim recertification when a family has net assets over $5,000 is .06 percent. This .06 percent rate must be used until HUD publishes and makes effective a new passbook savings rate.