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Cityscape, a HUD policy development and research journal, recently published an article exploring how households in the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) demonstration fared after leaving housing assistance. The study found that participants who left housing assistance for positive reasons fared better in terms of income growth and neighborhood quality than those who remained assisted. However, those who left assistance for negative reasons fared worse than households who remained in public housing or used a voucher to move.
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On Nov. 2, HUD released Notice PIH 2015-19, “Guidance for Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) and Owners of Federally-Assisted Housing on Excluding the Use of Arrest Records in Housing Decisions.” The guidance is effective until amended, superseded, or suspended.
HUD recently announced Common Sense Media Inc. has become a national participant in HUD’s ConnectHome initiative, a public-private collaboration to connect families living in HUD-assisted housing to affordable high-speed Internet.
HUD recently announced a proposed rule entitled “Equal Access in Accordance with an Individual’s Gender Identity in Community Planning and Development Programs (CPD) Rule (Gender Identity Rule).” The 60-day comment period for this proposed rule closes on Jan. 19, 2016.
The Section 811 Project Rental Assistance (PRA) Program seeks to identify, stimulate, and support successful and innovative state approaches to providing integrated supportive housing for people with disabilities. PRA funds are awarded to state housing agencies that set aside units in affordable housing projects whose capital costs are funded through federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, federal HOME funds, or other state, federal, and local funding sources.
HUD recently announced a proposed rule that would require public housing authorities that administer public housing to implement a smoke-free policy. This proposed rule would apply to all public housing, other than dwelling units in mixed-finance buildings. HUD is proposing the implementation of smoke-free public housing to improve indoor air quality in the housing, benefit the health of public housing residents and PHA staff, reduce the risk of catastrophic fires, and lower overall maintenance costs.
A recent report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) finds that the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program, as now administered, does not deliver adequately on its potential to expand children’s access to good schools in safe neighborhoods that encourage upward mobility. In 2014, approximately 280,000 children in the HCV program live in extreme-poverty neighborhoods despite the better options that a voucher should make available to them.
The Social Security Administration recently announced that with consumer prices down over the past year, monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for nearly 65 million Americans will not automatically increase in 2016.
An analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) and new data from HUD show that agencies restored 30,000 vouchers to low-income families over the past year. This amounts to approximately one-third of the 100,000 vouchers cut in the 16 months after sequestration took effect in March 2013.
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