HUD and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently announced that they will partner to provide resources to help nearly 2,000 homeless veterans find and sustain permanent housing. The two agencies will be providing help for homeless veterans...
On Nov. 10, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) released a report showing that rental assistance has been central to efforts to reduce homelessness among veterans, who have made considerable progress in recent years. According to the...
On Nov. 7, 2014, HUD issued a new passbook savings rate of 0.06 percent to be effective Feb. 1, 2015. The following week, on Nov. 14, HUD issued a RHIIP Listserv that gave additional details regarding the Feb. 1, 2015, effective date.
HUD recently announced that it had settled a disability discrimination case against the owner and manager of a 500-unit site in Illinois. The resolution required the owner to pay $255,000 to settle claims that it violated the fair housing laws by...
Q: If you allow an over-income police officer to live at your site for an attractive rent, according to HUD rules, you may not also compensate him for performing some policing duties at your site. True or false?
HUD recently announced announced that $24 million is being made available to certain qualified Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) through the Jobs-Plus Pilot Program to help residents increase their earned income and move toward self-sufficiency....
HUD recently published a proposed rule in the Federal Register for implementing statutory reforms made to the Section 811 Housing for Persons with Disabilities and Section 202 Housing for the Elderly programs by the Frank Melville Supportive Housing...
On Oct. 9, HUD issued a notice outlining policies and procedures for transferring remaining budget authority of a project-based Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments (HAP) contract under Section 8(bb)(1) of the U.S. Housing Act of 1937.
Q: HUD says you may charge late fees to households that don’t pay their rent by the end of the fifth day of the month, but HUD limits the total late fee you may charge in any one month to:
On Sept. 18, Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas, introduced H.R. 5632 “to reform and update the flat rent structure for public housing.” The bill was referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. Neugebauer is the Chair of the...
On Sept. 18, the Senate passed by a vote of 78 to 22 the House-passed continuing resolution (CR), H.J. Res. 124. The CR continues funding all federally funded programs through Dec. 11, 2014, at slightly below FY 2014 funding levels, on an annualized...
HUD, in collaboration with the Rockefeller Foundation, recently announced the National Disaster Resilience Competition. The competition will award nearly $1 billion in HUD disaster recovery funds to eligible communities across the nation. HUD states...
