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In an effort to curb the ongoing problem of subsidy overpayment and administrative errors related to deceased household members, HUD has published a notice to formalize applicable policies and procedures.
HUD is making $25 million in grants available to help rural and tribal communities struggling to address distressed housing conditions and concentrated poverty. The agency's new Rural Innovation Fund will promote an “entrepreneurial approach” to affordable housing and economic development in rural areas.
In announcing the funding, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan said the grants will “stimulate new approaches to old problems, particularly in areas struggling with poor housing conditions and deep poverty.”
HUD has issued an updated version of Chapter 38 of its Handbook 4350.1, Multifamily Asset Management and Project Servicing. Chapter 38 is entitled, “Emergency/Disaster Guidance—Office of Multifamily Housing Programs.”
The revised chapter assembles guidance HUD issued in notices and memoranda since Hurricane Katrina. The updated chapter serves to capture knowledge on how to respond efficiently to a presidentially declared disaster (PDD) and covers many different aspects of servicing multifamily sites that become damaged or vacated due to a PDD.
HUD is making approximately $5 million available to make emergency capital repairs to eligible multifamily sites owned by private nonprofit entities that are designated for occupancy by elderly residents. The capital repair needs must relate to items that present an immediate threat to the health, safety, and quality of life of the residents.
To clarify some confusion, HUD issued a notice [PIH-2010-38(HA)] specifying how the income from temporary employment with the U.S. Census Bureau should be handled.
Income payments that are considered temporary—for employment lasting no longer than 180 days and not culminating in permanent employment—are to be excluded when factoring a household's income [24 CFR §5.609(c)(9)]. This applies to temporary income payments from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Victims of domestic violence who live in HUD-supported housing should not be evicted just because they were victimized, according to strengthened regulations recently announced by HUD. And current or former victims of domestic violence must not be turned down from HUD programs.
HUD will be awarding grants totaling $19.6 million to prevent and correct housing-related health and safety hazards in low-income housing and to support programs for the control of asthma among residents in federally assisted multifamily housing.
HUD is offering $35 million to public housing authorities to develop facilities that will provide early childhood and adult education, and/or job training programs for public housing residents.
HUD has announced two measures to make information more accessible to the general public. The agency says it will begin publishing online a full historical view of detailed information on the physical condition of public housing and multifamily units across the U.S., and will offer citizens the opportunity to contribute to HUD's long-term strategic plan through a new interactive “suggestion box.”
Essentially a nonexistent issue since they were eradicated after World War II, bedbugs are back—in a big way. As a result, as of Sept. 13, 2010, inspectors in the Uniform Physical Conditions Standards (UPCS) program are required to report the presence of bedbugs at any site they inspect.
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