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HUD is awarding $96 million in grants to 15 public housing authorities in 10 states to make substantial improvements to thousands of public housing units. Projects being funded with the grants are in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Washington.
A New York City property management company and 20 affiliated owners of federally assisted multifamily sites in Brooklyn have reached a settlement with HUD over their failure to properly handle lead-based paint hazards. The owners agreed to pay a $20,000 penalty for failing to provide information regarding lead hazard reduction work at the sites and to clean up lead-based paint hazards in nearly 800 units.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, approved on February 17, awarded $4 billion for the Public Housing Capital Fund. A provision of the Recovery Act calls for all of the iron, steel, and manufactured goods used in projects for the construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public building or public work to be produced in the United States. The provision, Section 1605(a), is known as the “Buy American” provision.
In June, lawyers for the Section 8 contract administrator (CA) in Southern California announced that they had reached an agreement with HUD that will allow their client to continue as CA into 2010.
Don't forget: Effective July 23, 2009, the federal minimum wage increased from $6.55 to $7.25 per hour. Laws in 13 states and the District of Columbia have set a higher minimum wage. Where federal and state laws have different minimum wage rates, the higher rate applies:
If you receive new income information obtained through EIV, you may execute a repayment agreement with the resident for him to reimburse you over time. But even though Handbook 4350.3 says you must reimburse HUD for overpayment of assistance, you don't have to reimburse HUD immediately.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is urging HUD to improve how it assesses the use of program funds by public housing agencies (PHAs). In its report, “HUD's Oversight of Housing Agencies Should Focus More on Inappropriate Use of Program Funds,” the GAO says that the current system used by HUD “is limited in its ability to detect potential mismanagement.”
A major new resource for funding affordable housing projects nationwide will make its debut soon. After years of debate in Washington, it appears that Congress and the Obama Administration will get the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund operational for the first time in late 2009 and 2010.
In June, HUD announced that it is finalizing an agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to allow you to retain printed Enterprise Income Verification (EIV) reports in tenant files for the term of tenancy plus three years after the termination of tenancy. According to HUD, HHS has agreed to allow HUD property owners and managers to keep EIV New Hires data in tenant files much longer than before. An earlier HUD-HHS agreement required owners to destroy the EIV printed reports with New Hires data in tenant files when the reports were two years old.
HUD recently sent out a reminder that as of Sept. 30, 2009, site owners and managers will need to verify Social Security Numbers (SSNs) for all prospective or current household members who declare themselves to be a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, or eligible noncitizen. But what about mixed families?
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