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HUD has issued an updated version of Chapter 38 of its Handbook 4350.1, Multifamily Asset Management and Project Servicing. Chapter 38 is entitled, “Emergency/Disaster Guidance—Office of Multifamily Housing Programs.”
The revised chapter assembles guidance HUD issued in notices and memoranda since Hurricane Katrina. The updated chapter serves to capture knowledge on how to respond efficiently to a presidentially declared disaster (PDD) and covers...
HUD is making approximately $5 million available to make emergency capital repairs to eligible multifamily sites owned by private nonprofit entities that are designated for occupancy by elderly residents. The capital repair needs must relate to items that present an immediate threat to the health, safety, and quality of life of the residents.
To clarify some confusion, HUD issued a notice [PIH-2010-38(HA)] specifying how the income from temporary employment with the U.S. Census Bureau should be handled.
Income payments that are considered temporary—for employment lasting no longer than 180 days and not culminating in permanent employment—are to be excluded when factoring a household's income [24 CFR §5.609(c)(9)]. This applies to temporary income payments from the U.S. Census Burea...
Victims of domestic violence who live in HUD-supported housing should not be evicted just because they were victimized, according to strengthened regulations recently announced by HUD. And current or former victims of domestic violence must not be turned down from HUD programs.
HUD will be awarding grants totaling $19.6 million to prevent and correct housing-related health and safety hazards in low-income housing and to support programs for the control of asthma among residents in federally assisted multifamily housing.
HUD is offering $35 million to public housing authorities to develop facilities that will provide early childhood and adult education, and/or job training programs for public housing residents.
HUD has announced two measures to make information more accessible to the general public. The agency says it will begin publishing online a full historical view of detailed information on the physical condition of public housing and multifamily units across the U.S., and will offer citizens the opportunity to contribute to HUD's long-term strategic plan through a new interactive “suggestion box.”
Essentially a nonexistent issue since they were eradicated after World War II, bedbugs are back—in a big way. As a result, as of Sept. 13, 2010, inspectors in the Uniform Physical Conditions Standards (UPCS) program are required to report the presence of bedbugs at any site they inspect.
HUD is spending well over $5 billion annually to pay for heat and power for public housing authorities and subsidized rental units, or to assist low-income households who pay those utility bills directly, yet it is failing to take full advantage of existing energy-efficiency programs and “wasting taxpayers’ money,” says Charlie Harak, author of the report, “Up the Chimney: How HUD's Inaction Costs Taxpayers Millions and Drives Up Utility Bill...
Through its Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control Grant Program, HUD is offering grants totaling approximately $110 million to help eliminate lead-based paint from lower-income homes and to protect young children from lead poisoning. The grants are available for state and local governments.
Qualified entities can apply for supplementary funding to promote and develop a local Healthy Housing initiative, build on their lead hazard control program, or to address multiple h...
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