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Huge Win for PHAs & CLPHA Members
HUD General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing Dominique Blom announced at the CLPHA Spring Meeting that HUD is suspending its efforts to amend the public housing Annual Contributions Contract (ACC).
This is a huge win for...
Protecting, expanding. and providing affordable housing has never been so important.
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that housing instability and homelessness have disastrous effects on our national economic and public health. Public housing authorities (PHAs) are our nation’s most effective...
Today CLPHA and industry partners NAHRO, PHADA, and the MTW Collaborative sent a letter to General Deputy Assistant Secretary Dominique Blom, expressing objection “in the strongest possible terms to HUD’s attempt to change the nature of the Annual Contributions...
BACKGROUND:
CLPHA and our industry partners today sent a letter (and attachments Exhibit 1 and Exhibit 2) to House and Senate Appropriations Committee members asking to include legislative language that prevents HUD from implementing unilateral changes to the ACC...
On November 8, HUD published a notice for proposed revised forms of the Public Housing Authority Annual Contributions Contract (“ACC”) and Mixed Finance Amendment to the ACC (“MFACC Amendment”) for public review and comment. A summary of the proposed changes is available in CLPHA’s November 8...
Public Housing ACC and Mixed Finance Amendment to the ACC
On Friday, November 8, 2019, HUD published proposed revised forms of the Public Housing Authority Annual Contributions Contract (“ACC”) and Mixed Finance Amendment to the ACC (“MFACC Amendment”) for public review and comment. The...
In response to the outcry from public housing stakeholders, the House Appropriations Committee included in their FY20 appropriations bill for Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies (THUD) a provision to prohibit the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from...
Below are several updates regarding the ACC:
HUD Meets with Hill Staff, Defends ACC as a Grant
Earlier this week, we called on CLPHA members to contact your members of Congress and register your opposition to HUD’s proposed changes to the Annual Contributions Contract (ACC).
From...
On February 25, CLPHA submitted comments on the December notice outlining proposed changes to the Annual Contributions Contract (ACC).
CLPHA strongly objects to the changes on both procedural and substantive grounds. By publishing the notice through the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) rather than...
CLPHA is hosting a member call on Friday, February 22 at 1:00 PM ET to solicit member feedback on the notice of changes due to the Annual Contributions Contact (ACC) that was published on December 27.
As mentioned in a January 3 update, the notice was published under the Paperwork Reduction Act (...