The Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) presented its Leadership in Federal Energy Management Award to Richard Santangelo, program manager for HUD's Public Housing Environment and Conservation Clearinghouse. The program encourages housing authorities to make energy efficiency improvements...
HUD's Financial Audits Division performed an audit of the agency's formula-based allocations related to five programs funded in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The five programs audited were: (1) Public Housing Capital Fund; (2) Native American Housing Block Grant...
HUD wants you to be more vigilant than ever in assuring that lifetime sex offenders do not receive federal housing assistance. In a Sept. 9, 2009, Notice, HUD reiterated current requirements and encouraged sites to set standards and processes to prevent lifetime sex offenders from receiving...
A New York City property management company and 20 affiliated owners of federally assisted multifamily sites in Brooklyn have reached a settlement with HUD over their failure to properly handle lead-based paint hazards. The owners agreed to pay a $20,000 penalty for failing to provide...
HUD is awarding $96 million in grants to 15 public housing authorities in 10 states to make substantial improvements to thousands of public housing units. Projects being funded with the grants are in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Vermont...
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, approved on February 17, awarded $4 billion for the Public Housing Capital Fund. A provision of the Recovery Act calls for all of the iron, steel, and manufactured goods used in projects for the construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair...
In June, lawyers for the Section 8 contract administrator (CA) in Southern California announced that they had reached an agreement with HUD that will allow their client to continue as CA into 2010.
Don't forget: Effective July 23, 2009, the federal minimum wage increased from $6.55 to $7.25 per hour. Laws in 13 states and the District of Columbia have set a higher minimum wage. Where federal and state laws have different minimum wage rates, the higher rate applies:
If you receive new income information obtained through EIV, you may execute a repayment agreement with the resident for him to reimburse you over time. But even though Handbook 4350.3 says you must reimburse HUD for overpayment of assistance, you don't have to reimburse HUD immediately.
In June, HUD announced that it is finalizing an agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to allow you to retain printed Enterprise Income Verification (EIV) reports in tenant files for the term of tenancy plus three years after the termination of tenancy. According to HUD...
A major new resource for funding affordable housing projects nationwide will make its debut soon. After years of debate in Washington, it appears that Congress and the Obama Administration will get the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund operational for the first time in late 2009 and 2010....
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is urging HUD to improve how it assesses the use of program funds by public housing agencies (PHAs). In its report, “HUD's Oversight of Housing Agencies Should Focus More on Inappropriate Use of Program Funds,” the GAO says that the...
