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The House and Senate face a jam-packed agenda upon their return from the August recess with President Biden’s biggest ticket items awaiting immediate action. The window to pass this transformative legislation will not remain open for long....
The King County Housing Authority (KCHA) recently released a video highlighting the preservation and revitalization of Highland Village, an aging Bellevue, WA affordable housing complex that in 2016 was slated to be demolished and replaced by expensive...
Home Forward Executive Director Michael Buonocore recently announced his intention to resign from the housing authority effective February 2022 in order to focus on creative pursuits, including book writing and podcasting.
Michael became Home Forward’s executive director in...
The Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) at the University of Minnesota published a study in February examining the benefits and risks of implementing a rent stabilization program in Minneapolis found that a rent stabilization program should be paired with eviction...
Recently, HUD issued PIH Notice 2021-26 entitled Foster Youth to Independence Initiative, describing the process to allocate $10 million for new incremental vouchers made available under The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law 116-260). Under this notice, public housing...
The federal moratorium on evictions ended on August 26 after a 6-3 vote by the Supreme Court. The moratorium had been implemented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and extended by the Biden administration days after it was set to expire on July 31. Now that...
HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) recently announced the publication of midpoint findings from the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program evaluation. In 2012, HUD PD&R commissioned the first nationwide study of the FSS program that incorporates a randomized...
In the current issue of Cityscape from HUD PD&R, researchers Alex Schwartz from The New School and Kirk McClure from the University of Kansas seek to explore how the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program will utilize Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (...
From the District of Columbia Housing Authority’s press release:
[T]he District of Columbia Housing Authority Board of Commissioners voted to appoint Interim Executive Director Brenda Donald to executive director.
“Since my arrival in June, I have met some of our residents, many...
From the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority’s press release:
The Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) announced today the selection of Sidney Childs as the agency’s new Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) Officer, marking the first time in the agency’s 84-year history...