Feature

New HOTMA Guidance Allows Asset Limit Discretion for Existing Households

March 12, 2024    
And the TSP compliance deadline has been extended to May 31.     When it was originally released last September, HUD’s HOTMA implementation guidance was in the form of a joint Office of Housing and Office of Public and Indian Housing Notice (Notice H 2023-10). The notice was...
Compliance

How PHAs Can Use Funds to Meet LEP Requirements

March 12, 2024    
HUD has recently published new guidance.   Individuals who don’t speak English as their primary language and have limited ability to read, write, speak, or understand English may be a person with limited English proficiency (LEP). These individuals may be entitled to language assistance...
HUD Audits

OIG: HUD Should Improve Oversight of Sites with Low Inspection Scores

March 12, 2024    
HUD’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) audited HUD’s oversight of multifamily housing properties with failing Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) scores or life-threatening exigent health and safety (EHS) deficiencies. The objective of the audit was to determine whether HUD had...
In the News

HUD Finds Tennessee Owners Guilty of Disability, VAWA Noncompliance

March 12, 2024    
HUD recently announced that it has entered into a Voluntary Compliance Agreement (VCA) with HUD-funded Tennessee housing providers that will pay $50,000 in compensation to the aggrieved parties. The VCA resolves findings of noncompliance related to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and...
Feature

How to Incorporate HOTMA Discretionary Policies into Tenant Selection Plans

February 14, 2024    
Update your Tenant Selection Plan by March 31.   According to the HUD Handbook, multifamily housing owners are required to develop and make public written tenant selection policies and procedures. This Tenant Selection Plan (TSP) describes the procedures for processing and selecting applicants...
Certification

HUD Releases Updated List of Federally Mandated Income Exclusions

February 13, 2024    
Four new types of income will no longer impact eligibility calculations.     Specific sources of income are excluded by federal statute from consideration as income for purposes of determining eligibility for or benefits in a HUD program. On Jan. 31, HUD published a revised list of...
Income Calculations

HUD Aims to Revise How It Calculates Income Limits

February 13, 2024    
Income limit increases to be capped at 10 percent.   On Jan. 10, HUD published a notice on changes the agency is intending to implement to the methodology used for calculating Section 8 income limits. HUD publishes these income limits each year based on changes to each housing area’s...
In the News

JCHS Report Shows Record Levels of Renters Are Cost Burdened

February 13, 2024    
The share of low-rent units dropped from 22% of the stock to just 16% in the past decade.   Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) recently released its biennial report on the state of rental housing in the United States (available here). The report analyzes trends...
Feature

Follow 6 Guidelines When Creating Site’s Disaster Preparedness Plan

January 12, 2024    
Severe weather is in the forecast. Is your site prepared?     Increasingly frequent and severe weather events pose a growing threat to federally assisted housing and its residents. Extreme weather events can lead to flooding, power loss, property damage, transportation disruptions,...
Dealing with Households

Make Opioid Overdose Reversal Medication Part of Site’s Safety Toolkit

January 12, 2024    
We give you answers to four frequently asked questions.     Fentanyl and other opioids are fueling the worst drug crisis in the history of the United States. According to CDC drug overdose data, drug overdose deaths in the U.S., driven by illicit fentanyl and other opioids, remain at...