HUD held a webinar on October 10 on the key provisions of the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program that most affect public housing residents. After a brief background of “Why RAD” and RAD’s core principles, the webinar provides details about the RAD process, focusing on resident-engagement requirements. Much of the webinar explains the important resident rights built into RAD, such as the right to return to properties that have been converted from public housing to project-based rental assistance or project-based vouchers, no rescreening, relocation compensation, affordable rents, and resident-organizing rights.
The webinar recording is at https://bit.ly/2nRytqB and the slides are at https://bit.ly/31pJtJg
More information about RAD is available on page 4-33 of NLIHC’s 2019 Advocates’ Guide.