Regulations, Notices and NOFAs

Summary:  HUD's Notice reinstates Notice PIH 2010-51, which expired on December 31, 2011.  Procedures contained within PIH Notice 2010-51 remain in effect until amended, superseded or rescinded by subsequent HUD directive or guidance.

Publication Issuance Date:  August 8, 2012

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PIH Notice 2010-51: Over Subsidization in the Housing Choice Voucher Program (December 30, 2010) -- On September 28, 2007, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a report on over subsidization in the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program due to the issuance of vouchers with unit sizes greater than the number of family members in the household. Pursuant to the recommendation of the OIG, the Department issued clarifying guidance on the matter of categorization of live-in aides, other reasonable accommodation issues and corresponding data entry into the Public and Indian Housing Information Center (PIC) through the Notices cited above. The purpose of this Notice is to extend and revise Notice PIH 2009-22 (HA). Specifically, section 2.C has been added to explain subsidy standards in regard to live- in aides and their PHA-approved family member/s and section 3 has been revised to explain data entry in PIC for family members of live- in aides.

Summary:  HUD’s proposed information collection requirement described  below will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The Department is soliciting public comments on the subject proposal.

HUD’s request is for the clearance of on-site and telephone data collection from public housing agencies (PHAs) in support of the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program Administrative Fee Study. The purpose of the study is to collect accurate information on the costs of administering the HCV program across a national sample of high-performing and efficient PHAs, and to use this information to develop a new administrative fee allocation formula for the HCV program. This request for clearance is the fourth OMB request in support of this study and is for data collection for the full national study. The prior OMB requests have covered the reconnaissance or research design phase of the study, pretesting the full national study design, and conducting additional reconnaissance visits to increase the study sample.

For HUD’s current OMB request, the research team proposes three main types of data collection: (1) Measuring the time that HCV staff spend working on the various activities required to administer the program over a two-month period; (2) collecting information via interviews and document review on overhead costs, other costs related to HCV program administration that cannot be captured by measuring staff time, and ``transaction counts'' (the number of times an HCV program activity is completed over a specified period of time) in order to translate the staff time spent on that activity into a time per activity or cost per activity; and (3) a telephone survey of 130 small HCV programs (fewer than 250 vouchers) to understand how smaller agencies administer the HCV program effectively without the benefit of economies of scale that apply to larger programs.

The results of the data collection will be used to generate estimates of total cost per activity per PHA and to build a multivariate regression model that tests how much the variation across PHAs in administrative costs can be explained by PHA, participant, and market characteristics. The results of the model will be used to inform the development of an administrative fee formula that is based on the average cost per activity and takes into account the most important factors that cause some HCV programs to be more costly to administer than others.  Comments are due by August 6, 2012.

Date of Publication:  July 5, 2012

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Summary:  Listed below are a variety of Notices published in the Federal Register.  All of the notices have deadline response dates at various points.  HUD can make very significant changes to its existing information collection through HUD forms and surveys, that will affect PHAs and CD agencies positively or negatively. 

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:

• Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Comment Request; Multifamily Housing Mortgage and Housing Assistance Restructuring Program (Mark to Market)  Page 37917 [FR DOC# 2012-15455] PDF

• Notice of Submission of Proposed Information Collection to OMB; Mark-to-Market Program; Requirements for Community-Based Non-Profit Organizations and Public Agencies  Pages 35706-35707 [FR DOC# 2012-14517] PDF

• Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Comment Request; Accountability in the Provision of HUD Assistance “Applicant/Recipient Disclosure/Update Report-HUD 2880”   Pages 37430 - 37430 [FR DOC # 2012-15205] PDF

• Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Comment Request; Previous Participation Certification   Pages 36286 - 36286 [FR DOC # 2012-14710] PDF

• Notice of Submission of Proposed Information Collection to OMB; Supplement to Application for Federally Assisted Housing  Pages 35705-35706 [FR DOC# 2012-14527] PDF

• Strong Cities, Strong Communities National Resource Network Pilot Program Advance Notice and Request for Comment  Pages 35711-35718 [FR DOC# 2012-14503] PDF

• Notice of Submission of Proposed Information Collection to OMB; Supplement to Application for Federally Assisted Housing  Pages 35705-35706 [FR DOC# 2012-14527] PDF

Summary:  HUD's Notice (PIH Notice 2012-30) provides public housing agencies (PHAs) with instructions for the calculation of operating subsidy eligibility in Calendar Year (CY) 2013 in anticipation of Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2013 appropriations. It also informs PHAs that in an effort to reduce their reporting burdens HUD will use information in its systems of record to determine operating subsidy eligibility. HUD is committed to providing eligibility information to PHAs prior to the start of CY 2013.

Date of Publication:  June 22, 2012

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