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74 FR 4215 – Announcement of Funding Awards for the Housing Choice Voucher Family Self Sufficiency Program for Fiscal Year 2008 (January 12, 2009)
The goal of the Family Self Sufficiency (FSS) program is to support local strategies that coordinate Housing Choice Voucher assistance with public and private resources to help participating families achieve economic independence. This announcement lists all the PHAs…
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Notice PIH 2008 – 43 – Housing Choice Voucher Portability Procedures and Corrective Actions (December 3, 2008)
This notice guides PHAs regarding portability moves. The notice “describes the conditions that must exist in order for a PHA to deny a family’s request under the portability procedures as a result of insufficient funding in accordance with…
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HUD Programs: Violence Against Women Act Conforming Amendments (73 F.R. 72336)
This interim rule conforms HUD’s regulations to the self-implementing Violence Against Women Act’s (VAWA) provisions for families applying for or receiving rental assistance under HUD’s public housing and tenant- and project-based Section 8 programs. [Download.] The effective date…
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Final Fair Market Rents for Fiscal Year 2009 for the Housing Choice Voucher Program, etc.
The FY 09 FMRs went into effect on October 1, 2009. Rather than send you to the Federal Register, the link that follows takes you to the friendlier HUD User page which includes a link to the FMR…
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Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, Regulatory Waivers Granted to and Alternative Requirements for Emergency Assistance for Redevelopment of Abandoned and Foreclosed Homes Grantees Under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act, 2008 AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HUD (October 6, 2008)
This super long title refers to the regulations governing the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) component of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA), through which HUD will disburse a total of $3.9 billion in emergency assistance…
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73 FR 49332-49333, Eligibility of Students with Disabilities for Section 8 Housing Assistance (August 21, 2008)
This is HUD’s final rule on student eligibility for housing assisted under the Section 8 program. This rule amends 24 CFR 5.612 to make it consistent with the existing statutory authority that allows persons with disabilities who are…
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HUD PIH Notice 2008-13 – Requests for Exception Payment Standards for Persons with Disabilities as a Reasonable Accommodation (March 10, 2008)
HUD states that “[t]he purpose of this notice is to facilitate the process for review and approval of special payments standards under the Housing Choice Voucher program as a reasonable accommodation for a family with a person with…
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PIH 2008-12: Enhanced voucher requirements for over-housed families (2/15/08)
This HUD Notice, PIH 2008-12, establishes new improved policies for “over-housed” families receiving enhanced vouchers following the loss of federally subsidized housing, e.g. project-based Section 8 opt outs, prepayment of HUD-subsidized mortgages. Prior to the issuance of this…
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FY 2008 HUD FMRs available
HUD has posted the Fair Market Rents (FMRs) for FY 2008, which took effect October 1, 2007. The FMRs are determined for each metropolitan area and non-metropolitan county and are used to determine the respective payment standard amounts under the…