Public Housing

U.S. Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) on December 1 introduced the Rental Housing Revitalization Act (H.R. 6468), designed to support the restoration of the nation’s public housing infrastructure, simplify rental assistance programs and expand renters’ housing choices.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s HUD USER website recently released its final Quality Control for Rental Assistance Subsidy Determinations report for FY 2009.

NH&RA is pleased to offer the PowerPoint slide presentations for sessions exhibited during the 2010 Fall Developers Forum, October 18 & 19 in Boston, Mass.

Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) has released a draft of his revised PETRA bill.

The White House, together with officials from HUD, Treasury, USDA and congressional staff, recently hosted a one-day conference entitled,

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has issued a final ruling that implements a program to allow public housing agencies (PHAs) to use proceeds of their Capital Fund program for financing activities, including payment of debt service and housing development and modernization activities.

NCAHMA welcomed roughly 100 professionals to Chicago for its 2010 Affordable Housing Underwriting Conference & Annual Meeting on October 5-6. The event was one of NCAHMA’s best turnouts ever! If you missed it, don’t worry! You can download all of the PowerPoint presentations offered during the conference.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has issued a notice that requires eligible applicants intending to submit either a Planning or Implementation grant application under HUD’s FY2010 Round 1 Choice Neighborhoods Grant Program Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) to notify HUD of their intent to apply by October 7.

Yesterday, the House Financial Services Committee advanced two proposed bills to preserve affordable rental housing and revitalize public housing.

The research symposium in PD&R’s newest issue of Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research: (Volume 12, Number 2) examines aging in place models that effectively link older residents of assisted housing to supportive services.

National Housing & Rehabilitation Association is pleased to announce that it has released all PowerPoint slide presentations from the 2010 Summer Institute & Pre-Conference Symposium on New Markets Tax Credits.

HUD has released its proposal to Congress for its Transformation of Rental Assistance (TRA) Program. The proposed legislation would authorize major changes to HUD’s rental assistance programs, aimed at rethinking the entire nature of rental assistance, making it more user-friendly, enabling more tenant mobility, facilitating more preservation and development.

The $350 million proposal would provide owners of public and HUD-assisted housing the opportunity to convert to Section 8 like property-based rental assistance contracts. This would provide owners an important new tool to sustain operations and leverage private financing to address long-term capital needs and implement energy-efficiency improvements. View the complete story for a section-by-section summary.