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HUD’s Real Estate Assessment Center has published a new checklist that PHAs administering HUD’s Section 8 voucher programs can use to conduct the new National Standards for Physical Inspection of Real Estate (NSPIRE) inspection. This new inspection protocol focuses on the health and safety of the housing units where residents live, as well as on the functional defects of buildings, and places less importance on the appearance of building exteriors than the prior inspection protocol.
But any PHA that’s ready to implement NSPIRE should do so at its earliest convenience.
On Sept. 27, HUD released a notice under public inspection that extends the compliance period under the National Standards for the Physical Inspection of Real Estate (NSPIRE) final rule for the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV), Project Based Voucher (PBV), and Moderate Rehabilitation programs until Oct. 1, 2024.
HUD recently announced a new survey to obtain feedback from residents whose units were inspected under the new NSPIRE inspection process. Notice PIH 2023-24/H-2023-10, “Implementation of a Voluntary and Anonymous HUD Inspection Feedback Survey for Incorporation into the National Standards for the Physical inspection of Real Estate Program,” explains how HUD intends to use the new survey to identify “pain points” in the inspection process and to guide HUD’s efforts to improve residents’ general satisfaction with their housing conditions.
We highlight the noteworthy changes and clarifications in both notices.
HUD’s National Standards for the Physical Inspection of Real Estate (NSPIRE) changes are scheduled to be effective for multifamily inspections as of Oct. 1, 2023. And public housing inspections under the new protocol were scheduled to begin July 1, 2023. HUD recently published the remaining notices to be able to fully implement the NSPIRE physical inspection protocols.
HUD recently published Notice PIH 2023-06, Notice on Remedies PHAs have for Poor Performing Owners in the Housing Choice Voucher and Project-Based Voucher Programs. The notice informs public housing authorities of the available remedies they have when owners of Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) and project-based voucher (PBV) units fail to comply with their housing assistance payment (HAP) contracts or policies and procedures of the voucher program.
As we enter spring, the warm weather and rainy days may motivate you to conduct a thorough spring cleaning of your office files. But before you clean out your file cabinets or declutter your computer files, it’s important to review HUD’s record retention rules first.
Under the Fair Housing Act (FHA), housing residents or applicants can request reasonable accommodations, including the ability to have an assistance animal in their homes. The FHA requires owners “to make reasonable accommodations that a person with a disability may need to have equal opportunity to enjoy and use a dwelling, including a reasonable accommodation to pet or no animal policies so that individuals with disabilities are permitted to use assistance animals in housing, including public and common use areas.”
HUD recently modified and published four model forms required by the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (VAWA) and the implementing regulations. The latest update to VAWA occurred in March 2022 when President Biden signed into law the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2022. With this update, VAWA expanded protections for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. We’ll review the federal protections and housing rights of survivors and cover the changes proposed to the HUD-issued VAWA forms.
HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing Programs recently announced that the fifth round of application submissions for COVID-19 Supplemental Payments is open for Section 8, Section 202, and Section 811 sites. HUD will make more than $148 million in funding available for owners to submit eligible expenses for reimbursement related to protecting residents and employees from COVID-19. According to HUD, this will be the final round of COVID-19 Supplemental Payments (CSPs).
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