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HUD recently awarded more than $2.7 billion in funding to nearly 2,900 public housing authorities (PHAs) in all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands to make capital investments in their public housing units.
On Jan. 29, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officially issued an order extending the eviction moratorium to March 31, 2021. The order continues to ban evictions for certain renters under Section 361 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. §264) and 42 CFR §70.2.
On Jan. 20, 2021, President Biden signed an executive order mandating that the CDC extend the current eviction moratorium until at least March 31, 2021. While the extension is not yet published in the Federal Register, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the new director of the CDC, has agreed to implement the eviction moratorium extension.
On Jan. 26, President Biden signed several new executive orders addressing racial equity, including a memorandum that directs HUD to mitigate racial bias in housing and advance fair housing laws. Biden said in a press conference, “We need to make equity and justice part of what we do every day… Again, I’m not promising we can end it tomorrow, but we are going to continue to make progress to eliminate systemic racism in every branch of the White House and the federal government.”
President-elect Joe Biden selected Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge as his Housing and Urban Development secretary. Fudge is a former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and was just elected to a seventh term representing a majority Black district that includes parts of Cleveland and Akron. If confirmed, Fudge will be the first woman to lead HUD in more than 40 years and the second Black woman in history to lead the department. Biden’s transition team issued the following statement while nominating Fudge to the role:
AHEPA Affordable Housing Management Company (AMC) has announced that very low-income senior residents and personnel of the company’s 91 HUD Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly sites nationwide are set to receive critical COVID-19 vaccination services provided and administered as part of the Pharmacy Partnership for Long-term Care Program.
On Nov. 27 HUD published a notice in the Federal Register that establishes operating cost adjustment factors (OCAFs) for project-based assistance contracts issued under Section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 and renewed under the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (MAHRA) for eligible multifamily housing projects having an anniversary date on or after Feb. 11, 2021.
The Innovation for Justice (I4J) Program at the University of Arizona and the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) recently released a research report entitled, “Costs of Covid-19 Evictions.” It highlights some of the public costs of eviction-related homelessness that the United States will incur if adequate rental assistance and eviction protection is not provided.
HUD published a notification in the Federal Register to establish an expedited process for the review of requests for relief from HUD Section 8 and public housing requirements by public housing agencies located in counties that are included in presidentially declared major disaster declarations in calendar years 2020 and 2021.
The share of voucher holders covered by voucher protection laws is growing, according to a recent report from The Urban Institute and the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC). Their dataset and accompanying report entitled, “State and Local Voucher Protection Laws,” compile state and local laws that prohibit discrimination by landlords against renters with Housing Choice Vouchers (HCVs).
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