We’re pleased to share positive updates from HUD regarding Public Housing Operating Fund and Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program funding.
Public Housing Operating Fund
HUD has informed us that they will be able to obligate December Public Housing Operating Fund payments, contrary to earlier reports. PHAs can expect to see these funds available in eLOCCS by December 1.
Mark Gillett, executive director of the Oklahoma City Housing Authoirty, recently sat down with The Oklahoman to give a brief video explainer about the HCV program and how chronic federal underfunding of the program presents challenges for OCHA and impacts local housing opportunities. Watch the video here.
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From the San Diego Housing Commission's press release:
Located about two miles from the beach and a mile from a transit center in one of San Diego’s high-opportunity communities, the Rose Creek Village development celebrated its groundbreaking today, commemorating the start of construction that will produce 59 new studio apartments with rents affordable to households with low income.
