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Interactive Tool Shows the Challenges in Affordable Housing Development
The Urban Institute and National Housing Conference have published an interactive and educative tool, “The Cost of Affordable Housing: Does It Pencil Out,” that demonstrates the huge gap between what it costs to build and maintain affordable housing and the affordable rent that low-income families can pay, making it difficult to finance affordable housing without … Continue reading Interactive Tool Shows the Challenges in Affordable Housing Development
NAHRO submits Small Area FMR Comments
NAHRO has submitted comments on HUD’s notice titled “Establishing a More Effective Fair Market Rent System; Using Small Area Fair Market Rents in Housing Choice Voucher Program Instead of the Current 50th Percentile FMRs.” HUD’s proposed rule would mandatorily impose the use of Small Area Fair Market Rent (SAFMR) areas in 31 metropolitan areas, if … Continue reading NAHRO submits Small Area FMR Comments
NAHRO meets with HUD PIH Leadership
NAHRO’s Acting CEO, John Bohm, and the NAHRO Policy Team members; Georgi Banna, Eric Oberdorfer and Tushar Gurjal; along with PHADA and CLPHA met with HUD’s Public and Indian Housing Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (PDAS), Lourdes Castro-Ramierz, and many of the PIH department leadership. Among the topics discussed were the priorities for implementing the Housing … Continue reading NAHRO meets with HUD PIH Leadership
HUD Publishes Integrity Bulletins for CPD Formula Grantees
The HUD Offices of the Inspector General (OIG) and Community Planning and Development (CPD) have developed Integrity Bulletins that cover topics representing issues that CPD formula grantees often struggle with: procurement and contracting; sub-recipient oversight; conflicts of interest; internal controls; documentation and reporting; and financial management. The four Integrity Bulletins available include: HUD CPD and OIG Message for … Continue reading HUD Publishes Integrity Bulletins for CPD Formula Grantees
HUD Announces In-Person MTW Expansion Advisory Committee Meetings
HUD will host the MTW Expansion Research Advisory Committee for their 2 day, in-person meeting on Thursday and Friday, September 1 and 2. The in-person meeting will be held on Thursday, September 1, 2016 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) and Friday, September 2, 2016 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (EDT) … Continue reading HUD Announces In-Person MTW Expansion Advisory Committee Meetings
UPCS-V: Updated Decision Trees
HUD has posted updated UPCS-V Decision Trees on the HUD REAC Oversight and Evaluation (OED) website. Feedback on either the UPCS-V Decision Trees or the UPCS-V Protocol (version 1.0) can be sent to OED@hud.gov. The updated Decision Trees can be found here.
HUD Information Collection: Alternative Inspections – Housing Choice Voucher Program
On Monday, HUD will publish in the Federal Register a 30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection titled “Alternative Inspections – Housing Choice Voucher Program.” The purpose of this information collection is to allow PHAs to submit a request to HUD to use an alternative inspection standard under Section 8 other than the alternative HOME and … Continue reading HUD Information Collection: Alternative Inspections – Housing Choice Voucher Program
Full Time Workers and Housing Affordability
The blog of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies has a great post on how the affordable housing supply is not meeting the needs of many full time workers in many cities. The post has a chart comparing the income needed to afford one bedroom units at Fair Market Rents (FMRs) with median full … Continue reading Full Time Workers and Housing Affordability
Why Don’t HCV Program Participants Live Near Better Schools?
I saw in a Furman Center e-mail a link to a research paper titled “Why Don’t Housing Voucher Recipients Live Near Better Schools? Insight from Big Data.” While I haven’t gone through the entire paper, here’s a short excerpt from the abstract: We find that families with vouchers are more likely to move toward a … Continue reading Why Don’t HCV Program Participants Live Near Better Schools?
HUD Posts Revised New Administrative Fee Formula Webcast
HUD has posted a webcast on the Revised New Administrative Fee Formula. We have updated our previous post on Administrative Fee Formula links to reflect this. Watch the webcast about the revised new administrative fee formula here.