Regulations, Notices and NOFAs

Summary:  This Notice provides guidance to public housing agencies (PHAs) seeking Emergency Capital Needs funding for safety and security measures utilizing FY 2011 funds. This Notice provides instructions regarding the application and funding process for emergency safety and security funding only. This Notice does not apply to funding for unforeseen or unpreventable emergencies or for non-presidentially declared natural disasters.

Issued: October 4, 2011

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Summary: HUD’s proposed rule wouldamend HUD’s regulations for theSection 8 Management Assessmentprogram (SEMAP) to revise the process by which HUD measures and verifies performance under the SEMAP lease-up indicator. Specifically, HUD proposes to amend the existing regulation to reflect that assessment of a public housingagency’s (PHA) leasing indicator will be based on a calendar year cycle, rather than a fiscal year cycle, which would increase administrative efficiencies for PHAs. This proposed rule would also clarify that units assisted under the voucher homeownership option or occupied under a project-based housing assistance (HAP) contract are included in the assessment of PHA units leased.

Date of Publication:  September 23, 2011

Comment Due Date: October 24,2011

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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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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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