Regulations, Notices and NOFAs

Full Title: Notice of Availability: HUD’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 NOFA for the Capital Fund Education and Community Facilities Program—Technical Correction and Extension of Deadline Date

Pubilcation Date:  1/13/2011

Summary: On October 18, 2010, HUD posted on http://www.Grants.gov its Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 Capital Fund  Education and Community Facilities (CFCF) Program. The NOFA made available approximately $35 million in assistance for development of facilities to provide early childhood education, adult education, and/or job training programs for public housing residents. Today’s Federal Register publication announces that HUD has posted on http://www.Grants.gov a technical correction that makes several corrections and clarification to NOFA. Specifically, the corrected NOFA clarifies that Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) may submit multiple applications, but each application must include only one site. HUD has also revised the NOFA to specify tie breaking criteria. Further, in order to provide applicants with sufficient time to submit new or revised applications that incorporate the corrections and clarifications to the NOFA, HUD has extended the application deadline to February 3, 2011.

Potential applicants should review carefully the corrected NOFA to best determine whether to submit an updated application which incorporates the corrections and clarifications related to this notice. Applicants who submitted their applications prior to the technical correction notice can choose to submit an updated application that reflects the corrections and clarifications, but are not required to if they determine no changes are needed for their application. Applicants are reminded that if they submitted any portion of their application by fax with their initial application submission and choose to submit a revised application, then they will have to refax the materials after they submit the revised application to HUD. Please refer to the General Section for instructions regarding materials that are faxed and how HUD matches faxes to applications. For each site for which a PHA submits an application, the last version of the application received by http://www.Grants.gov by the deadline date, in accordance with the timely receipt requirements, will be the application that is reviewed and rated.

The revised NOFA can be found and downloaded from http://www.Grants.gov, using the CFDA number for that program, 14.890.

DATES: The revised application deadline date is February 3, 2011. Applications must be received by Grants.gov by 11:59:59 p.m. eastern time on the deadline date. See the General Section for timely receipt requirements. All information required to complete the application is in the General Section and this NOFA.  Applicants may download the application and instructions from the Grants.gov Web site at http://www07.grants.gov/applicants/apply_for_grants.jsp. Please carefully read the Notice of HUD’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) Policy Requirements and General Section to HUD’s FY 2010  NOFAs for Discretionary Programs, posted on Grants.gov on June 7, 2010. Applicants need to be aware that following receipt, applications go through a  validation process in which the application may be accepted or rejected. Please allow time for this process to ensure that you meet the timely receipt  requirements.

Full Title: PIH Notice 2010-50: Effective Use of the Enterprise Income Verification (EIV) System's Deceased Tenants Report.to Reduce Subsidy Payment & Administrative Errors

Publication Date: December 30, 2010

Covered Programs:  This Notice applies to the following HUD-PIH rental assistance programs: Public Housing, Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation, Project-Based Voucher, Project-Based Certificate; and Housing Choice Voucher programs.

Publication Date: 1/5/2011

Summary: On October 21, 2010, HUD posted on http://www.Grants.gov, its Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the FY 2010 Resident Opportunity and Self-Sufficiency (ROSS) Service Coordinators Program. The NOFA establishes an application due date of Monday, February 21, 2011, which inadvertently falls on the federal holiday of Washington’s Birthday (commonly referred to as Presidents Day). To help ensure that applicants have sufficient time to submit their applications, are not deprived, this notice announces that HUD has posted an extension of the application due date on http://www.Grants.gov. The new deadline for submission of applications is Wednesday, February 23, 2011. Applicants do not need to download a new application or resubmit their applications as a result of this notice

This notice extends Notice PIH-2009-52 (HA). In extending Notice PIH 2009-52 (PHA),

This notice also makes the following changes:

• Adds a statement that HUD has revised the HAP contract and tenancy addendum forms HUD-52641 and HUD-52641A to incorporate language from the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act (PTFA) and;
• Includes a paragraph about the Paperwork Reduction Act.

This Notice provides guidance to public housing agencies (PHAs) in the case of foreclosures, regarding new protections for tenants with Section 8 assistance that was recently enacted into law by:

• Section 703 of the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act (PTFA), which is part of the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-22, approved May 20, 2009); and
• The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5, approved February 17, 2009) (Recovery Act) under the heading “Community Development Fund” in Title XII of Division A.

View PIH 2010-49 here.