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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 Investment Act of 2010 and the Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Act of 2010, both of which were enacted on Jan. 4, 2011.
The extensive, proposed rule would establish the requirements and procedures for:
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 Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance of the House Financial Services Committee.
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 basis. The House passed the CR on Sept. 17.
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 the competition will help the selected communities recover from previous disasters and improve their ability to respond to and recover from natural hazards in the future.
In celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, HUD, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released “Five Years of Learning from Communities and Coordinating Federal Investments,” a report demonstrating how the three agencies are cooperating to help communities provide more housing choices, make transportation systems more efficient and reliable, and create vibrant neighborhoods that attract business development and jobs while protecting the environment.
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