HUD

HUD’s Office of Policy Development & Research is in the process of formulating it’s research agenda for the next 5-10 years and is soliciting input from the public.

U.S. Housing and Urban Development recently contracted with Abt Associates Inc. and released a two-part study examining the housing recovery efforts in the Gulf Coast after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

HUD’s Economic and Market Analysis Division recently released its Comprehensive Housing Market Analysis report for the Las Cruces, New Mexico market area.

The White House’s Rental Policy Working Group recently released realignment requirements for several critical administrative policy areas in order to better align Federal rental policy. As one of the first initiatives to be tested, the Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA) has been selected as the nation’s first housing authority to implement federal subsidy layering review realignment.

The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) recently released a report detailing the usage of Housing Choice Vouchers (HCV). The report finds that in 2010, 2,083,187 families in the United States used HCVs yet only 91 percent of the National authorized vouchers were utilized…

In February 2011, the Hawaii State Legislature passed S.B. No. 1240 which created a mechanism to provide alternative financing assistance to incentivize the use of the State’s low-income housing tax credit program.

Housing & Urban Development Director Shaun Donovan last week traveled to Columbus, Ohio to help popularize the Project Rebuild initiative that has been proposed as part of President Obama’s American Jobs Act.

HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing has released a notice that provides public housing agencies (PHAs) with instructions for operating subsidy calculation submissions in 2012.

The Office of Development in HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing Programs will host an overview of the revised 2011 MAP Guidebook via webcast on October 17, 2011 from 11:30 am to 3:00 pm with a 45 minute break for lunch between 12:30 and 1:15 pm. The implementation of the MAP Guidebook has been postponed until November 1, 2011 to accommodate more time for interested parties to raise questions and make comments about the revisions.

HUD has released the final fiscal year 2012 fair market rents (FMRs) to become effective October 1, 2011. The primary uses of FMRs are to determine payment standards for the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program, to determine renewal rents for expiring project based Section 8 contracts, to determine initial rents for housing assistance payment contracts in the Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy program, and to serve as rent ceilings in the HOME program.

HUD’s Economic and Market Analysis Division has prepared Comprehensive Housing Market Analyses for the Burlington-South Burlington, Vermont and Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, Florida market areas.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R), in partnership with the Office of Native American Programs (ONAP), has just launched a new effort to support and increase sustainable construction in Native communities.