We hope you can join us for the May 8 Senior Housing NOW rally in Washington, DC. The Senior Housing NOW rally webpage has all the information you need to RSVP and have a great day at the rally.
President Trump's request, which Congress will consider as it sees fit, asks for a $9.6 billion, or 16.4%, cut to HUD compared to the FY19 HUD funding.
The request would cut funding for the Section 202 account by $34 million, or 5%, from the FY19-enacted level of $678 million.
What the Administration released on March 11were its “top line” requests. The Administration will release the full details of its FY20 request during the week of March 18. In these forthcoming details, we will learn much more about the request and how it would impact older adult households.
On February 20, HUD announced the standardization of shortened timeframes between inspection notification and actual inspection dates. The new policy to provide owners with no more than 14 days with which to notify residents and have contracted inspectors onsite to do the inspection is detailed in Notice H 2019-04.
The White House is expected to provide Congress with a “top line” of its FY20 budget requests the week of March 11. Here, the President’s general budget message, his top priorities, and summary tables will be released.
In February, HUD issued a RADBlast quoting Tom Davis, Director of the Office of Recapitalization in the Office of Multifamily Housing Programs, stating, “This is the first legacy HUD assisted housing program we have fully wound down through RAD, converting a decades old program to the modern and cost-efficient Section 8 platform while still preserving assistance for low-income families.
The partial federal government shutdown ended on January 25, after 35 days of disrupting HUD’s ability to obligate funds to rental assistance contracts and paralyzing other HUD functions.
As the partial Federal government shutdown extends into its 4th week with uncertainty over when normal HUD operations will resume, an estimated 1175 project-based rental assistance (PBRA) contracts with December 2018 and January 2019 expiration dates will not be able to be renewed until after the shutdown, with Section 202/811 PRAC projects comprising the majority of impacted contracts. While some funding may be available to help the Section 8 and 811 properties for at least through January, already 440 Section 202 PRAC contracts
With HUD and its funding shutdown effective December 21, 2018, HUD was not able to renew 650 contracts for its multifamily housing partners in December. Of these 650 communities with expired contracts, MSNBC spent much of the day on January 14, 2019, broadcasting live from San Jose Manor, a LeadingAge member in Jacksonville, FL with about 100 residents.
Here’s an overview of our work for you in December 2018.
As reported previously, HUD posted in Dec 2017 drafts of the contracts that may be used in a future solicitation for Section 8 contract administration services, dividing duties between a national contract and five regional contracts that align with the recently restructure HUD multifamily regions.
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