HUD Further Streamlines Process for Small PHAs to Convert Public Housing to Vouchers
HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) issued Notice PIH 2019-05, further streamlining the process for a public housing agency (PHA) with fewer than 250 public housing units (“Small PHA”) to…
HUD REAC to Collect Information about Carbon Monoxide Detectors at Federally Assisted Housing
HUD’s Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) sent Inspector Notice No. 2019-01 to inspectors requiring them to collect information about carbon monoxide (CO) detectors in all federally assisted and…
HUD Announces Section 202 Capital Advance NOFA
HUD announced on April 4 that $50 million in Capital Advance funding is now available under the Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Program Capital Advance program. These are the first…
National Fair Housing Alliance Reaches Settlement with Facebook
The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA), Communications Workers of America (CWA), several regional fair housing organizations, and individual consumers and job seekers settled civil rights claims…
HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint against Facebook, Alleging Electronic Red Lining and Other Violations
HUD Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) Anna Maria Farías filed a Charge of Discrimination against Facebook with HUD’s Office of Administrative Law Judges on March 28.…
HUD Finds Los Angeles Continues to Violate Housing Accessibility Laws for People with Disabilities
HUD issued a Supplemental Letter of Findings to the City of Los Angeles on April 1 detailing the City’s ongoing failure to provide accessible housing for low-income people with disabilities. The…
House Subcommittee Discusses Proposal to Authorize Disaster Housing Recovery Grant Program
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing on “The Administration of Disaster Recovery Funds in the Wake of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria” on March…
Additional Disaster Housing Recovery Updates – April 8, 2019
The following is a review of disaster housing recovery developments since the last edition of Memo to Members and Partners (for the article in the previous Memo, see 3/25). Federal…
Advocates Begin Planning for Our Homes, Our Voices National Housing Week of Action
Advocates from around the country are beginning to plan how they will be involved in this year’s Our Homes, Our Voices National Housing Week of Action May 30-June 5. Every state and…
Watch Video Compilation of 2020 Presidential Candidates Addressing Affordable Housing
America’s affordable housing crisis has become a major 2020 campaign issue and is being addressed by presidential candidates in an unprecedented way. They are talking about the crisis and their…
From the Field: Nevada Advocates Urge State Legislature to Take Action on Homelessness and Housing Poverty
As NLIHC’s recently released The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes report demonstrates, Nevada has the greatest shortage of affordable housing for extremely low-income renters in the nation; the…