Feature

HOTMA Spotlight: Track Annual Inflationary Adjustments and Passbook Rate

November 13, 2023    
Prepare for how these annual changes will affect income certifications.     The Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act (HOTMA) Final Rule requires that certain amounts used to make income, asset, and eligibility determinations be adjusted by an inflationary factor on an annual...
Compliance

HUD Offers New NSPIRE Inspection Checklist for Voucher Inspections

November 13, 2023    
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...
Income Calculations

SSA Announces Modest Cost-of-Living Adjustment for 2024

November 13, 2023    
The Social Security Administration (SSA) recently announced that the Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for approximately 71 million Americans will increase 3.2 percent in 2024. The cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will begin with benefits payable to more than 66...
In the News

HUD Expands Metro Areas Required to Use Small Area FMRs

November 13, 2023    
HUD recently announced that it will cover expanded housing and neighborhood choices for more than 800,000 total households using Housing Choice Vouchers to find and secure affordable housing. PHAs in an additional 41 metropolitan areas that cover more than 440,000 housing vouchers will now be...
In the News

White House Requests Funds to Extend Affordable Connectivity Program

November 13, 2023    
The White House recently made a formal request to Congress for $6 billion to extend the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). The ACP offers free or discounted high-speed internet to qualifying households. It provides a monthly internet discount of $...
Feature

HUD Delays HOTMA Implementation for Multifamily Housing

October 19, 2023    
And affirms discretionary enforcement of new asset limits.    
Compliance

HUD Extends NSPIRE Compliance Date for HCV and PBV Programs

October 19, 2023    
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...
Compliance

HUD Survey Seeks Resident Feedback on NSPIRE Inspections

October 19, 2023    
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...
In the News

HUD Charges Owner with Disability Discrimination

October 19, 2023    
The case shows how mishandling situations involving assistance animals could cost you.   HUD recently charged an owner with violating the Fair Housing Act by refusing a resident’s request for a disability-related reasonable accommodation to keep an assistance animal and by subjecting the...
In the News

HUD Exercises New VAWA Enforcement Authority Against Two Housing Providers

October 19, 2023    
HUD recently announced settlements with housing providers in Nevada and California, resolving allegations that they denied housing opportunities to two women because they experienced dating violence and stalking.