The 2024 Federal Fiscal Year (FFY2024) begins on October 1, 2023, and as of the writing of this Alert, Congress has not passed and the President has not signed a bill to provide funding for FFY2024. As a result, federal...more
9/29/2023
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Federal Funding ,
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Rental Assistance Demonstration ,
Rental Assistance Programs
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Recently, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released its highly anticipated Supplement to the RAD Notice (Supplement), which makes a number of changes to the current Rental Assistance...more
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has extended the submission deadline for expedited regulatory waivers until April 1, 2022, for Public Housing and Housing Choice Vouchers....more
During this time of uncertainty, Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) are now operating under stressed conditions with limited resources. HUD posted a revised “COVID-19 FAQs for Public Housing Agencies” on April 22, 2020,...more
A number of provisions of the CARES Act are applicable to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs....more
As public housing authorities (PHAs) and multifamily housing owners grapple with protecting their residents, employees and stakeholders amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, HUD has issued several pieces of guidance in recent days...more
3/23/2020
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Eviction ,
Foreclosure ,
HUD ,
Low-Income Issues ,
Moratorium ,
Public Housing ,
Public Housing Authorities ,
Rental Assistance Demonstration ,
Rental Property ,
Trump Administration
Last week, HUD issued a new notice requesting letters of interest under its Moving to Work (MTW) program from PHAs with 1,001 or more total public housing and housing choice voucher (HCV) units. MTW participants are able to...more
HUD’s Moving to Work (MTW) Office has been busy! Earlier this month, HUD published for public comment a revised Operations Notice that will govern an expanded MTW program. ...more
10/17/2018
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Applications ,
Deadlines ,
Housing Market ,
HUD ,
Low-Income Issues ,
Public Housing ,
Public Housing Authorities ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Rental Assistance Programs ,
Section 8
The Census Bureau, in conjunction with researchers from Harvard and Brown Universities, this week published a national “opportunity atlas” that tracks outcomes for children in adulthood based on nationwide data. ...more
10/4/2018
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Equal Access ,
Housing Choice Vouchers ,
Housing Discrimination ,
Housing Market ,
HUD ,
Low-Income Issues ,
Opportunity Zones ,
Public Housing ,
Rental Property ,
Section 8
As indicated earlier this week, HUD is seeking comments to inform revisions to its Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule. We have been waiting for official publication of the advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR)...more
8/17/2018
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Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) ,
Affordable Housing ,
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Housing Market ,
HUD ,
Low-Income Issues ,
Public Housing ,
Public Policy ,
RAD Program ,
Real Estate Market ,
Rental Assistance Programs ,
Rental Property ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Section 8 ,
Urban Planning & Development
This week, HUD announced that it intends to amend its 2015 regulations on affirmatively furthering fair housing, or AFFH. HUD is giving the public 60 days from publication of its advance notice of proposed rulemaking to...more
Last week, HUD issued a notice extending until after October 31, 2020, the deadline for cities and other participating jurisdictions to submit assessments of fair housing (AFH), the new reporting and assessment tool required...more
Today, the HUD Office of Inspector General (OIG) published a bulletin indicating that it is unclear if undocumented immigrants have access to certain HUD Community Planning and Development (CPD) programs – namely the Housing...more
8/22/2017
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Homeless Issues ,
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Low Income Housing ,
Low-Income Issues ,
OIG ,
Public Housing ,
Section 8 ,
Undocumented Immigrants ,
Vulnerable Victims
In a new audit report, HUD’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) questioned certain costs paid by a public housing authority (PHA) for travel by the PHA’s commissioners. The OIG alleges violations of uniform cost principals at...more
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released an audit report of HUD examining the extent to which over-income families have been residing in public housing units. “Over-income” means the families were eligible low-...more
This week, HUD’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a report critical of HUD’s oversight of the community service and economic self-sufficiency requirement (CSSR). This federal requirement, applicable only to public...more
With the passage of the 2014 Consolidated Appropriations Act, Congress required HUD to unify the operations of the public housing and Housing Choice Voucher Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) programs. In order to implement the...more
Since HUD issued its proposed rule for the demolition and disposition of public housing in October of this year, Ballard Spahr has thoroughly examined the regulation and has now provided to HUD comments on the potentially...more
On October 16th, HUD issued a new proposed rule that would make significant changes to the approval process for the demolition and disposition of public housing properties. In addition to codifying a number of existing,...more
HUD recently issued a proposed rule to revise requirements applicable to demolition and disposition of public housing by public housing authorities (PHAs) and modify the rules for converting public housing to Section 8...more
This week, HUD published a Jobs Plus Pilot NOFA for distribution of approximately $24 million to public housing agencies (PHAs) for a new Jobs Plus Pilot program. The pilot, a successor to a program by the same name that was...more
HUD’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an audit of HUD last week pertaining to awards of asset repositioning fees (ARF), the funds that public housing authorities (PHAs) may receive in connection with demolishing or...more
HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) recently issued PIH 2014-20 (PIH Notice) providing guidance to public housing authorities (PHAs), PHA affiliates and instrumentalities, mixed-finance owners and owners of...more
A new HUD Office of Inspector General (OIG) audit published last week levied intense criticism at HUD’s implementation of public housing asset management. Focusing on HUD’s methodology and monitoring of asset management and...more
On June 3, 2014, the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation Housing and Urban Development (T-HUD) unanimously approved its FY 2015 spending bill. The bill includes an increase to the Rental Assistance...more