HUD

This Housing Notice (11-03) sets forth the Department’s policies for Owners seeking to convert efficiency units to one-bedroom units in certain types of HUD-assisted and/or insured housing.

President Obama is slated to release his FY-2012 Budget on February 14; however, news of budget priorities is beginning to be released. Last week the White House announced that the budget would fully fund the New Markets Tax Credit program at $5 billion.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has developed standards and requirements to permit the conversion of efficiencies to one-bedrooms in HUD assisted and/or insured housing.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Policy Development & Research has published a new report based on American Housing Survey data entitled, “Investigating Very High Rent Burdens Among Renters in the American Housing Survey.”

Washington DC’s Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, February 15, 2011, to discuss the District’s proposed uses of Federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program Round Three (NSP3) Funds.

The National Housing Conference (NHC) and its research affiliate, the Center for Housing Policy recently announced the release of two reports that identify specific regulatory and administrative changes the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) could adopt to improve access to mainstream supportive services by residents of subsidized housing and facilitate and encourage the development and preservation of affordable and workforce housing in location-efficient areas.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Census Bureau have decided to delay the start of data collection for the American Housing Survey for three months, from the beginning of May until the beginning of August.

NH&RA’s Council for Energy Friendly Affordable Housing recently authored a new white paper suggesting way to improve how utility allowances are calculated for energy efficient LIHTC and HUD-assisted multifamily housing.

HUD has released new versions of the American Housing Survey 2005 and 2007 National datasets through its HUD USER web site.

The inaugural Department of Housing and Urban Development American Housing Survey (AHS) Users Conference will be held on March 8, 2011.

On January 4 the President signed Public Law the Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Act of 2010 (P.L. 111-372).

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has released the application, requirements, criteria and procedures for the 2011 National Preservation Award.