In the News
March 31, 2016
The National Low Income Housing Coalition recently released a new report, The Gap: The Affordable Housing Gap Analysis 2016, which finds that there is a shortage of 7.2 million affordable and available rental units for America’s 10.4 million extremely low-income (ELI) renter households, whose...
Feature
March 14, 2016
The Fair Housing Act (FHA) prohibits housing discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, or familial status. In the most basic terms, the familial status provisions ban sites from denying housing to families with children. But you’ll have to do more than...
Compliance
March 14, 2016
The Department of Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2014, made several changes to the United States Housing Act of 1937. Five streamlining changes were implemented through a Federal Register notice on June 25, 2014. And on Jan. 6, 2015, HUD issued a proposed rule codifying these...
In the News
March 14, 2016
On March 1, HUD Secretary Julián Castro testified on the agency’s Fiscal Year 2017 budget request before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD). Republican members of the subcommittee took issue with mandatory...
In the News
March 14, 2016
A recent study, “Health in Housing: Exploring the Intersection Between Housing and Health Care,” conducted by researchers from the Center for Outcomes Research and Education (CORE) and in partnership with Enterprise Community Partners found that Medicaid-covered residents had fewer...
In the News
March 14, 2016
A report recently released by the Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC) titled Housing Agency Waiting Lists and the Demand for Housing Assistance estimates there are approximately 1.6 million families on public housing waiting lists and more than 2.8 million families on Housing...
In the News
March 14, 2016
HUD recently released a new version of the HUD Form 91067—VAWA Addendum. With the exception of the expiration date, the content of the form has not changed from its previous version.
A site owner must have a VAWA lease addendum for all current and new tenants. Although HUD provides a VAWA...
HUD Audits
March 14, 2016
HUD’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) audited HUD’s oversight of public housing agencies’ declarations of trust. The audit was part of the activities in OIG’s fiscal year 2015 annual audit plan. The audit objective was to determine whether HUD had adequate oversight of...
The Trainer
March 14, 2016
Avoiding Discrimination Claims from Families with Children
In this month’s feature, we discussed how to avoid discriminating against families with children, in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act. Discrimination claims may arise from the way you advertise vacancies, show apartments,...
Feature
February 15, 2016
If your site was inspected recently, you may have lost points for a condition that violates HUD inspection standards, but that a local law permits or even requires. For example, you may have lost points for having window guards on your site’s windows, even though your local law requires...
