General News

NH&RA is hosting a members-only town hall to provide a forum for affordable housing owners and operators to share COVID-19 best practices on Thursday, March 26 from 3:00-4:30 pm EDT.

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) recently aired its new documentary, East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story. Stories from East Lake Meadow residents in Atlanta reveal hardship and resilience, and raise critical questions about race, poverty and who is deserving of public assistance.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) posted interim guidance on preventing the spread of COVID-19 in retirement communities and independent living facilities.

The National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA) launched a new COVID-19 Resources website that complies guidance from federal agencies, state housing agencies and general resources on the pandemic. To suggest a resource for this page, or if you have a question, please contact NCSHA. The Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition’s (AHTCC) resource page is […]

The rapid escalation of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic is having a deeply unsettling impact on the on how we live and how we work.  It is testing our disaster response system in unanticipated ways and will require a new kind of resilience from us.  Perhaps our most critical issue right now is balance: how to be stewards for some of the most vulnerable members of our society while, at the same time, navigating our own personal uncertainties and business obligations. 

The National Digital Inclusion Alliance has created an open-source document to track all the updated COVID-19 offers made by Internet Service Providers across the nation. This is getting updated on an ongoing basis. If you know of any offers in your area that could be helpful to the community, please add to the spreadsheet!

HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson was added to the White House Coronavirus Task Force. While the risk of infections for Americans remains low, HUD is encouraging multifamily owners and agents, Public Housing Authorities, Performance Based Contract Administrators, FHA lenders to make the information below available to residents and employees.

The Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future (SAHF) will host a CORES 101: Overview of the CORES Certification & Application webinar at 1:30 pm ET on March 17.

High-income renters don’t just rent high-end units. Some high-income renters choose to rent units that would be affordable to renters with lower incomes, thereby reducing the number of affordable units available to lower income households.

The Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation released a report, which explores the risk that LIHTC-financed properties in Massachusetts will convert to market-rate housing at Year 30. Roughly 86 percent of the 15,679 LIHTC units approaching year-30 are subject to some form of longer-term affordability restriction and will not be at risk for market conversion before December 31, 2030.

The California Housing Partnership and Housing California released California’s Roadmap HOME 2030, an initiative to develop a ten-year “Marshall Plan” that will set the course for creating a California with homes for all.

The California Housing Partnership released the 2020 Affordable Homes at Risk report, which found that that California has already lost 15,004 affordable rental homes and that another 31,821 affordable rental homes are currently at risk of market rate conversion in the next decade.