Regulations, Notices and NOFAs

  • Jonathan Zimmerman September 26, 2011 02:57pm EDT

    Summary:  The purpose of HUD's notice is to revise and extend PIH Notice 2010-12. The revisions occur in section 2. (Operating Requirements) in regard to Moving to Work (MTW) agencies, section 2.b. (Leasing and Ongoing Reporting) in regard to portability, and section 3.d. (PHA Tracking) in regard to Voucher Management System (VMS) reporting. These reporting requirements are still essential to the coordination of data between HUD and the Department of Veterans Affairs and to ensure that the HUD-VASH Housing Choice Vouchers (HCV) remain available to the same population upon turnover. The Public and Indian Housing Information Center (PIC) reporting requirements were initially described in section II. f. and III. of the Implementation of the HUD-VASH Program (Operating Requirements) published in the Federal Register on May 6, 2008, and are still applicable with exceptions noted in section 2.b of this notice.

    Date of Publication:  September 20, 2011

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  • Jonathan Zimmerman September 26, 2011 02:53pm EDT

    Summary:  The purpose of this notice is to establish reporting, turnover, and other requirements for the Family Unification Program (FUP). This Notice has no application to HUD’s Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) voucher program or the Non-Elderly Disabled (NED) voucher program. Guidance for these programs will be provided under a separate Notice.

    Date of Publication:  September 20, 2011

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  • Jonathan Zimmerman September 26, 2011 02:50pm EDT

    Summary:  HUD’s notice outlines for Community Planning and Development (CPD) and Public and Indian Housing (PIH) grantees, including Public Housing Agencies (PHAs), suggested ways in which to forge partnerships with public and private agencies at the federal, state, and local levels to promote resident connections to health care, education, employment, and other social services in an effort to improve quality of life and provide a foundation for successful housing outcomes.  While the guidance delivered in this notice is not meant by HUD to be exhaustive, it does include a number of resources and tools for strengthening such partnerships.  

    HUD’s notice makes no mention of significant reductions in PHAs’ funding sources available for operations including the coordination of services described in the notice.  Instead HUD’s notice states, “Many PHAs and grantees throughout the country are already engaged in such partnerships with health care, educational, and social service organizations to connect program participants with needed services. HUD encourages PHAs and grantees to develop and strengthen such collaborations where possible, and recognizes the value in these coordinated efforts and the impact they can have in helping assisted households receive needed services and move toward self-sufficiency. The benefits of collaboration are experienced by both PHAs and grantees and the households they serve. In a challenging economic climate, such collaboration can result in the more effective use of public resources, reduced duplication of efforts, and greater success of program participants. Collaborative approaches to supporting vulnerable populations can also increase understanding of the interrelationships among funding streams; advance appropriate place-based and systems-level responses; increase awareness of community needs; and involve key stakeholders in the development of relevant recommendations about service improvement. Ultimately, the linking of housing and supportive services results in more stable households and communities, less property damage, fewer evictions and turn-overs, and in cases where employment is possible, an increase in rent revenues.”

    Date of Publication:  September 20, 2011

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  • Jonathan Zimmerman September 16, 2011 09:47am EDT

    Summary: The purpose of this notice is to reinstate Notice PIH 2010-23 on the same subject with a significant revision in this section and the addition of section 2e. Section J of the Implementation of the HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) Program (Operating Requirements) published in the Federal Register on May 6, 2008, stated that the Department will consider, on a case-by-case basis, requests from a public housing agency (PHA) to project-base HUD-VASH vouchers in accordance with 24 CFR part 983. This notice provides continued guidance to those PHAs that have been awarded HUD-VASH vouchers that are interested in project-basing a portion of those vouchers. Previously no more than 50 percent of a PHA’s allocation of HUD-VASH vouchers could be project-based. Please note that this limitation has been removed in order to provide PHAs with additional flexibility in administering their HUD-VASH program. However, the number of HUD-VASH project-based units must still be within the 20 percent maximum budget authority that may be allocated to project-based voucher (PBV) assistance in accordance with 24 CFR Section 983.5(a).

    All types of PBV proposals will be considered: existing units, newly constructed units and substantially rehabilitated units.

    Date of Publication:  September 16, 2011

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  • Jonathan Zimmerman August 24, 2011 01:27pm EDT

    Summary:  The primary uses of FMRs areto determine payment standards for theHousing Choice Voucher (HCV) program, to determine initial renewalrents for some  expiring project-basedSection 8 contracts, to determine initial rents for housing assistance paymentcontracts in the Moderate RehabilitationSingle Room Occupancy program, and to serve as rent ceilings in the HOME program. HUD’s notice proposed FY 2012 FMRs for all areasthat reflect the estimated 40th and 50thpercentile rent levels 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 dataare updated using one-year ACS data inareas where statistically valid one-yearACS data is available. The ConsumerPrice Index (CPI) rent and utilityindexes are used to further update thedata from 2009 to the end of 2010.

    The proposed FY 2012 FMR areas arebased on current Office of Managementand Budget (OMB) metropolitan areadefinitions and include HUDmodifications that were first used in thedetermination of FY 2006 FMR areas.Changes to the OMB metropolitan areadefinitions through December 2009 areincorporated. The bedroom ratiosdeveloped using 2000 Census datacontinue to be used and stateminimums, calculated each year fromthe estimated FMRs, continue to beapplied.

    This notice also includes HUD’sresponses to comments received on theMarch 9, 2011, (76 FR 12985), Federal Register notice (‘‘Trend Notice’’)seeking public comment regarding themanner in which HUD calculates atrend factor, the time period the trendfactor is applied in the FMR estimationprocess and related issues.

    HUD received four applications toparticipate in the Department’s Small Area FMRdemonstration. Theseapplications are being reviewed andinformation on the demonstrationprogram will be made available in anotice published at a later date. 

    Finally, in an effort to serve HUD’sexternal clients who use HUD’sestimates of Area Median FamilyIncome (MFI) and their associatedIncome Limits (IL), HUD is requestingcomments on a proposal to establish acertain date for publishing these parameters.

    Comments are due to HUD by September 19, 2011

    Date of Publication:  August 19, 2011

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  • Jonathan Zimmerman August 18, 2011 10:48am EDT

    Summary:  PIH Notice 2007-15 (HA) is extended until amended, superseded, or rescinded. HUD's notice provides guidance to public housing agencies (PHAs) regarding the creation and use of affiliates and instrumentalities in Public and Indian Housing programs under the United States Housing Act of 1937. Affiliates and instrumentalities may participate in mixedfinance developments subject to Annual Contributions Contract (ACC) amendments and other regulations. PHAs remain responsible for the submission of mixed-financing documentation; this responsibility may not be transferred to affiliates or instrumentalities.

    Date of Publication:  August 17, 2011

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  • Jonathan Zimmerman August 18, 2011 10:24am EDT

    Summary:  HUD's PIH Notice 2011-46 combines current relevant policy of PIH Notices 2009-51 and 2010-18 concerning rent reasonableness requirements in the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program and removes obsolete provisions of PIH Notice 2009-51 relative to the definition of assisted and unassisted housing.

    Date of Publication:  August 17, 2011

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  • Jonathan Zimmerman August 18, 2011 10:17am EDT

    Summary:  HUD issued a notice that the Department states, "clarifies HUD policies, Federal statutes and regulations that apply to local, non-traditional activities implemented under the Moving to Work (MTW) demonstration program."

    Date of Publication:  August 15, 2011

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  • Jonathan Zimmerman August 02, 2011 09:42am EDT

    Summary:  HUD’s notice (PIH Notice 2011-44) provides guidance to public housing agencies (PHAs) and Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) property owners and summarizes the regulations pertaining to lead-based paint under the Environmental Protection Agency’s ( EPA’s) Renovation, Repair and Painting (RRP) Rule at 40 CFR Part 745, and HUD’s regulations at 24 CFR Part 35, commonly known as the Lead Safe Housing Rule (LSHR) and the Lead Disclosure Rule (LDR). It also includes a description of EPA enforcement and fines, and provides PHAs with examples of possible compliance issues that PHAs should work to avoid. Additionally, PHAs must incorporate ongoing lead-based paint maintenance and reevaluation activities into regular building operations.

    Date of Publication:  July 29, 2011

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  • Tamar Greenspan July 21, 2011 09:59am EDT

    Summary:  The purpose of this Notice is to: a) Explain procedures for establishing public housing development cost limits; b) Explain procedures for the annual posting of TDC limits to the HUD website and notification to Public Housing Authorities (PHAs).

    Publication Date:  July 20, 2011
    Cross Reference: PIH Notice 2010-20

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