Regulations, Notices and NOFAs

Summary:  The purpose of HUD's notice is to extend Notice PIH 2010-25 (with a significant revision to section 4.A. and minor changes to section 4.B.) which established timeframes for timely reporting of the Family Report (form HUD-50058) into the Public and Indian Housing Information Center (PIC), explained PIC modifications and clarified Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) reporting requirements. Section 4.A. has been revised to only require reporting of issuance of voucher (action code 10) for new admissions and portability move-ins.  The purpose of this change is to relieve public housing agencies (PHA) of the administrative burden of submitting reports on families that have been issued a voucher, but may not necessarily move. Changes to section 4.B. are related to certain fields of the form HUD-50058 that require completion. The Department places great importance on the data it receives from PIC. The Department relies on PHAs to submit accurate, complete and timely data to administer, monitor and report on the management of its rental assistance programs. In order to fully justify its budget requests to Congress, the Department needs full cooperation from all PHAs in meeting their reporting requirements in a timely manner. The data from form HUD-50058 and form HUD-50058 Moving to Work (MTW) also assists the Department in responding to natural disasters and emergencies.

Date of Publication:  November 30, 2011

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Summary:  HUD’s notice requires public housing agencies (PHAs), their affiliates, instrumentalities, contract management and owner entities receiving HUD funding to obtain Dun and Bradstreet Numbering System (DUNS) numbers and to register in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR).

PHAs must comply with the provisions of this Notice if they are recipients of HUD funding for PHA owned projects and/or are recipients of HUD funding pursuant to an annual contributions contract to administer any of the following programs: Public Housing, Housing Choice Vouchers (including the

project-based certificate and voucher programs), the Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation program, and the Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy program PHAs receiving federal financial assistance under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) or seeking funds under a Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) have already satisfied the requirement to obtain a DUNS number.

Once a DUNS number is obtained, the CCR registering remains an annual requirement.

Date of Issuance:  October 18, 2011

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Summary:  This notice provides instructions to public housing agencies (PHAs) on submitting requests for fiscal year end (FYE) changes. The process ensures that HUD has information for approval or denial and provides sufficient lead time for HUD to update required databases.

Issued: October 6, 2011

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Summary:  On September 30, 2011, HUD published a notice of its final FY 2012 Fair Market Rents (FMRs) for all areas that reflect the estimated 40th and 50th percentile rent levels which take effect on October 1, 2011.  The FMR values are trended to April 1, 2012. 

The FY 2012 FMRs are re-benchmarked using five-year, 2005–2009 data collected by the American Community Survey (ACS). These data are updated using one-year ACS data in areas where statistically valid one-year ACS data are available. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rent and utility indexes are used to further update data from 2009 to the end of 2010.

The final FY 2012 FMR areas are based on current Office of Management and Budget (OMB) metropolitan area definitions and include HUD modifications that were first used in the determination of FY 2006 FMR areas, with changes incorporated through December 2009. The bedroom ratios developed using 2000 Census data continue to be used and state minimums, calculated each year from the estimated FMRs, continue to be applied.

Date of publication:  September 30,2011

View HUD's final FY 2012 FMRs here.  NAHRO’s analysis and comments on the impacts of HUD’s discretionary adoption of new OMB areas on FY 2012 and prior year FMR values and our county-by-county analysis of FMRs from FY 2006 - FY 2012 is available at:  here and here respectively.

HUD stated in the notice that the Department is unable to respond to all comments received on the proposed FY 2012 FMRs in this notice because of the timing of the comment end date.   HUD stated that initial responses are HUD’s Web site at: HUD’s Preliminary Response To Comments.  HUD’s notice states that the Department will continue to review data provided by the comments and publish any revisions to the FY 2012 FMRs resulting from data submissions in a forthcoming Federal Register notice.

Formalize a Publication Date for Income Limits:  HUD's notice states that the FY 2012 Income Limits will be published on December 1, 2011. While the FY 2012 Income Limits do not benefit from any additional ACS data over what was included in the FY 2011publication, they are updated with the FY 2012 FMRs for the purposes of evaluating areas of relatively high-or low-income to housing cost relationships and further updated with CPI to the end of 2010, trended to the mid-point of FY 2012 in a manner similar to what was done with the FY 2011 Median Family Income estimates and Income Limits. The FY 2013 Median Family Income estimates and Income Limits, published December 1, 2012, would be the first set of median family income estimates and income limits updated with ACS data collected from 2006–2010.