HUD has extended the Disaster Voucher Program (DVP) for all pre-disaster public housing, project-based, homeless, and special needs housing families currently receiving DVP assistance. The deadline for the program had been Dec. 31, 2009, depending on the availability of funding and the number of...
Facts: In February 2007, a sewer backed up in Wheatland Homes, a public housing complex managed by the North Newton Housing Authority. The complex's executive director met with maintenance personnel and asked whether any of the other units in the fourplex had been checked for damage....
Facts: In 1990, after two years as property manager, an African-American employee of the St. Clair Housing Authority informed his supervisor that he had an interest in the position of director of property management. The supervisor selected a white man for the position, and the property...
HUD will begin publishing online a full historical view of detailed information on the physical condition of public housing and multifamily units across the U.S. and will offer the public the opportunity to contribute to HUD's long-term strategic plan through a new interactive “...
On Nov. 16, 2009, HUD's Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) published a new protocol entitled “Property Requirements for the Inspection of Elevator Equipment Rooms.” The new requirements, effective Jan. 4, 2010, apply to HUD-assisted and -insured properties with elevators.
The Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) presented its Leadership in Federal Energy Management Award to Richard Santangelo, program manager for HUD's Public Housing Environment and Conservation Clearinghouse. The program encourages housing authorities to make energy efficiency improvements...
HUD launched Neighborhood Networks in 1995 as one of its first initiatives to promote self-sufficiency for residents and provide computer access in its assisted housing communities. As the program's 15th anniversary approaches in 2010, the agency remains as committed as ever to the idea of...
Facts: As a result of conditions found at an annual unit inspection, the site owner terminated a resident's lease. At a formal grievance hearing in February 2009, the hearing officer supported the owner's decision to terminate the lease as a result of several lease violations,...
Facts: A resident who was living on the third floor of a building that did not have an elevator gave the site manager a note from her physician, requesting that she be moved to any available first-floor unit because her physical condition prevented her from engaging in strenuous activity...
HUD's Financial Audits Division performed an audit of the agency's formula-based allocations related to five programs funded in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The five programs audited were: (1) Public Housing Capital Fund; (2) Native American Housing Block Grant...
Facts: Morton LLC, a residential property owner subject to the Los Angeles Rent Stabilization Ordinance (LARSO), served notices of eviction on residents because it wanted to raise the rent on units on its housing property.
Facts: The New York City Housing Authority took action to terminate the tenancy of a resident for being chronically late in paying rent. The resident claimed that the housing authority improperly denied him a grievance hearing to contest its actions to evict him. The housing authority...
