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HUD launched Neighborhood Networks in 1995 as one of its first initiatives to promote self-sufficiency for residents and provide computer access in its assisted housing communities. As the program's 15th anniversary approaches in 2010, the agency remains as committed as ever to the idea of engaging site owners and managers in establishing community learning centers that bring digital opportunity and lifelong learning to residents.
The Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) presented its Leadership in Federal Energy Management Award to Richard Santangelo, program manager for HUD's Public Housing Environment and Conservation Clearinghouse. The program encourages housing authorities to make energy efficiency improvements and reduce energy consumption, using cost savings from reduced consumption to repay the cost of installing energy-efficient utilities and appliances.
HUD's Financial Audits Division performed an audit of the agency's formula-based allocations related to five programs funded in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The five programs audited were: (1) Public Housing Capital Fund; (2) Native American Housing Block Grant Program; (3) Community Development Fund; (4) HOME Investment Partnerships Program; and (5) Homelessness Prevention Fund.
HUD wants you to be more vigilant than ever in assuring that lifetime sex offenders do not receive federal housing assistance. In a Sept. 9, 2009, Notice, HUD reiterated current requirements and encouraged sites to set standards and processes to prevent lifetime sex offenders from receiving federal housing assistance. Recommendations are to:
Ask households at each recertification whether any member is subject to a lifetime registration requirement under a ...
HUD is awarding $96 million in grants to 15 public housing authorities in 10 states to make substantial improvements to thousands of public housing units. Projects being funded with the grants are in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Washington.
A New York City property management company and 20 affiliated owners of federally assisted multifamily sites in Brooklyn have reached a settlement with HUD over their failure to properly handle lead-based paint hazards. The owners agreed to pay a $20,000 penalty for failing to provide information regarding lead hazard reduction work at the sites and to clean up lead-based paint hazards in nearly 800 units.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, approved on February 17, awarded $4 billion for the Public Housing Capital Fund. A provision of the Recovery Act calls for all of the iron, steel, and manufactured goods used in projects for the construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public building or public work to be produced in the United States. The provision, Section 1605(a), is known as the “Buy American” provision.
In June, lawyers for the Section 8 contract administrator (CA) in Southern California announced that they had reached an agreement with HUD that will allow their client to continue as CA into 2010.
Don't forget: Effective July 23, 2009, the federal minimum wage increased from $6.55 to $7.25 per hour. Laws in 13 states and the District of Columbia have set a higher minimum wage. Where federal and state laws have different minimum wage rates, the higher rate applies:
If you receive new income information obtained through EIV, you may execute a repayment agreement with the resident for him to reimburse you over time. But even though Handbook 4350.3 says you must reimburse HUD for overpayment of assistance, you don't have to reimburse HUD immediately.
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