HUD

HUD announces the publication of the issue of HOME FACTS, which informs all Participating Jurisdictions (PJs) that the right to draw HOME grant funds expires after nine fiscal years, including the fiscal year of the appropriation.

HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge testified before the House Appropriations Committee on the department’s FY 2024 Budget Request.

The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs held a nomination hearing for Dr. Jared Bernstein to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and Solomon Greene to be an assistant secretary of Policy Development & Research at HUD and David Uejio to be assistant secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity at HUD.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development released a new publication that summarizes the effects of restrictive land use policies on housing supply, location and affordability and highlights reforms that state and local governments can adopt to increase the housing supply.

The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) is hosting a webinar at 1 p.m. ET on April 14 with senior HUD officials for a presentation on the various challenges to landlord acceptance of vouchers, as well as agency initiatives to overcome those hurdles, followed by a discussion exploring the future of landlord participation in the program.

In a new Our Way Home blog post, Sarah Brundage, senior advisor for housing supply & infrastructure at HUD, and Ellen Lurie Hoffman, acting director of the office of community and economic development at Treasury, describe three examples of states utilizing American Rescue Plan (ARP) funding to serve their communities’ housing supply needs.

HUD announced updated guidance for owners of properties participating in its Section 8 Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) program.

On March 28 at 10 a.m. ET, the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies (THUD) subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee will hold its annual Oversight Hearing with Inspectors General from HUD and the Department of Transportation.

HUD published a Final Rule on Reinstatement of Discriminatory Effects Standard, also referred to as disparate impact. The Final Rule rescinds the HUD’s 2020 rule governing Fair Housing Act disparate impact claims and restores the 2013 discriminatory effects rule.

HUD is seeking feedback on its National Standards for the Physical Inspection of Real Estate (NSPIRE) physical inspection scoring and ranking methodology.

HUD issued Notice PIH 2023-13, which provides guidance to Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) regarding the new limitations on continued occupancy in public housing for over-income families from the Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act of 2016.

HUD’s Office of Disaster Recovery (ODR) announced that it is sponsoring the 2023 Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery and Mitigation (CDBG-DR and CDBG-MIT) Problem Solving Clinic.