Feature
March 15, 2023
HUD recently released its final rule for implementing the remaining Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act (HOTMA) provisions. HOTMA was a bipartisan bill that sought to align and streamline public housing and multifamily programs.
Compliance
March 15, 2023
Under the Fair Housing Act (FHA), housing residents or applicants can request reasonable accommodations, including the ability to have an assistance animal in their homes. The FHA requires owners “to make reasonable accommodations that a person with a disability may need to have equal...
HUD Audits
March 15, 2023
In September 2021, after an onsite review of a 150-unit project-based Section 8 property in Waukegan, Ill., discovered deplorable conditions at the site, HUD initiated an administrative action against the owner and management agent for failing to provide decent, safe, and sanitary conditions to...
In the News
March 15, 2023
The HUD Inspector General recently launched an initiative to advance environmental justice in HUD-assisted housing. In a statement, Inspector General Rae Oliver Davis said, “My office is prioritizing oversight work that promotes safe, affordable housing by reducing environmental and public...
In the News
March 15, 2023
A former housing manager was recently sentenced and ordered to pay $17,543.92 in restitution and sentenced to five years of federal probation, including six months of home detention, for altering a postal money order and embezzling more than $28,000 from the Charleston-Kanawha Housing Authority (...