In the News
October 31, 2016
HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing Programs recently issued Notice H2016-10 that reminds owners and management agents of HUD-assisted sites that they must maintain lead-based paint risk assessment and inspection records and lead disclosure forms as required by HUD’s Lead-Based Paint...
In the News
October 31, 2016
HUD recently issued two notices regarding energy benchmarking reporting, one for HUD-assisted or HUD-insured private multifamily housing, and one for public housing. Utility benchmarking involves tracking the utility consumption of a development on an ongoing basis, calculating the energy and water...
In the News
October 31, 2016
On Sept. 27, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced the HUD Inspection Process and Enforcement Reform Act of 2016. This bill aims to protect low-income residents from dangerous living conditions while holding HUD accountable for prosecuting negligent property owners.
This bill would require property...
In the News
October 31, 2016
HUD recently finalized a new rule to protect the housing of survivors of domestic and dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. On March 7, 2013, President Obama signed the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (VAWA 2013) into law. The law significantly expanded the housing...
Recent Court Rulings
October 31, 2016
Facts: A group of public housing residents sued their local PHA, claiming that it violated HUD regulations and the state’s contract law by charging them monthly rent above the lawful ceiling and by failing to conduct annual reviews and interim adjustments of residents’ utility...
Recent Court Rulings
October 31, 2016
Facts: A resident qualified for a voucher in 2011 and used it to obtain a lease at an apartment site. The resident’s lease and Housing Assistance Payment contract made the PHA responsible for paying the entire monthly rental cost to the owner directly and assigned the resident responsibility...
Recent Court Rulings
October 31, 2016
Facts: On March 12, 2013, a site owner entered into a contract to purchase a 10-unit residential apartment building. Since 2008, the previous owner had received subsidy payments from HUD to assist low-income families living in the apartments. These payments were pursuant to a Housing Assistance...
Feature
September 29, 2016
By Carolyn E. Zezima, Esq.
Dealing with Households
September 29, 2016
HUD and other affordable housing regulators and funders strongly encourage or even require owners and managers to engage residents in helping maintain a green and healthy site, including getting their input on ways to improve upon and add green practices and giving them incentives to participate to...
Recent Court Rulings
September 29, 2016
Facts: In 2014, the owner of a federally subsidized apartment building in Baltimore hired an extermination company to treat the site for a bedbug infestation. Two exterminators entered a disabled resident’s apartment and saw what looked to them like a marijuana plant growing in his bathtub....
