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Recently, HUD approved New Jersey's plan for spending $1.46 billion in the second round of storm aid intended to help the thousands of people on waiting lists for Superstorm Sandy rebuilding assistance. New Jersey received $1.8 billion in Sandy aid last year. All told, it will receive about $4.2 billion, a small fraction of the cost of damage from the October 2012 storm.
Recently, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan testified at two confirmation hearings held by the two Senate committees with jurisdiction over his nomination as the next Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director. Donovan was nominated by President Obama on May 22.
On June 12, Reps. Steve Stivers, R-Ohio, and Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, members of the House Committee on Financial Services, introduced H.R. 4868, a bill to expand by ten the number of public housing agencies (PHAs) that may participate in HUD’s Moving to Work (MTW) demonstration.
Q: Your resident selection plan must describe the circumstances under which you may reject an applicant for occupancy or assistance. But HUD allows the owner to establish a policy to consider extenuating circumstances. True or false?
President Obama has formally announced his intention to nominate Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan to lead the Office of Management and Budget, and selected San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro to replace Donovan at HUD.
On May 21, the House Appropriations Committee approved by a vote of 28 to 21 the FY 2015 Transportation-HUD (T-HUD) appropriations bill. The House bill has a funding level of $52.03 billion, $1.2 billion more than the FY 2014 enacted funding level and $7.8 billion less than the president’s FY 2015 budget request. However, given the reduction in offsets caused by a decline in Federal Housing Administration receipts, the program level within the bill is more accurat...
On May 21, HUD issued guidance making $5 million in tenant protection voucher assistance available for certain at-risk households in low-vacancy areas. Notice HUD 2014-13 provides instructions, eligibility, and selection criteria for $5 million of the $130 million appropriated for tenant protection actions in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 (PL 113-76). HUD will accept requests for assistance on a rolling basis until the funding is exhausted.
After the 2011 notice of funding availability (NOFA) to solicit bids for performance-based contract administrator (PBCA) contracts was completed, several PBCAs sued HUD, claiming that the NOFA wasn’t an appropriate method for awarding PBCA contracts. PBCAs administer Section 8 HAP contracts for HUD. And PBCAs in the contested 42 states and territories are continuing to operate (without conducting Management and Occupancy Reviews) under a series of three-month exte...
HUD recently announced an agreement with the city of Dubuque, Iowa, settling allegations that the city discriminated against African Americans in the administration of its Housing Choice Voucher program.
Congress recently approved three initiatives in HUD's Multifamily Transformation Plan. Secretary Donovan announced that HUD will proceed with its existing plan for the transformation, with one key modification. For now, Asset Management employees will not relocate to other offices. They will continue to operate in existing offices around the country. But the plan will remain otherwise unchanged. The transformation will still incorporate the four components we origin...
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