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Meeting topics include various updates from CLPHA on HUD policy and programs and the latest developments in Washington, D.C., including FY24 appropriations, FMRs, evictions, NSPIRE, and EHV service fees.
HUD recently issued PIH Notice 2023-23 on Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) service fees, which makes changes to add two new eligible activities that may be funded with the EHV service fees. The CLPHA EHV Working Group recommended HUD provide additional uses for the special fees, and this...
PIH Notice 2023-14 details the statutory restriction prohibiting the reissuance of turnover EHVs after September 30, 2023. This notice also provides new guidance for EHV shortfalls and covers circumstances under which a PHA can receive an adjustment to the PHA’s EHV renewal funding during a...
Protecting, expanding. and providing affordable housing has never been so important.
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that housing instability and homelessness have disastrous effects on our national economic and public health. Public housing authorities (PHAs) are our nation’s most effective...
A new study published as part of the Housing Crisis Research Collaborative examined the challenges and successes of Emergency Housing Vouchers (EHVs) to address homelessness. As of February 2023, roughly 67% of awarded EHVs were leased, approximately 30,000 households had received a voucher...
Meeting topics include various updates from CLPHA on HUD policy and programs, plus the latest developments in Washington, D.C on EHVs and the ACC.
From King County Housing Authority's press release:
The King County Housing Authority, in partnership with a number of organizations across the county working to help people experiencing homelessness, has achieved a lease-up rate of 90 percent for the 762 Emergency Housing Vouchers (EHVs) it was...
EHV Leasing Faster Than Any Previous HUD Voucher Program
HUD announced today that the Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) program, created under the American Rescue Plan Act, has leased up 35,000 EHVs. This represents 50 percent of the 70,000 EHVs allocated in the American Rescue Plan Act and...
73-year-old Chicago resident Joe Ann Wilson spent nearly two decades in the same apartment, but during the COVID-19 pandemic she was forced to leave her home due to rising rents and subsequently moved between homeless shelters for a year and a half.
With help from Lakynna Dorrough, a rapid...
HUD recently published new guidance on the process for revocation and reallocation of Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) awards. Notice PIH 2021-15 previously stipulated that “if a PHA fails to lease its authorized EHVs within a reasonable period of time, HUD...