On March 13, HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing announced a national call to answer questions from housing providers struggling to navigate COVID-19 in HUD-assisted housing. Lamar Seats, the MFH Deputy Assistant Secretary, will host the call.
In March hearings of the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, HUD Secretary Ben Carson was asked to defend his department’s work to help HUD-assisted communities during the coronavirus pandemic.
According to HUD’s Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) website, all multifamily housing and public housing inspections will be postponed until further notice, except where there is a threat to life or property at a specific location. HUD also announced on March 13 that Management and Occupancy Reviews (MORs) are also postponed until further notice.
On Thursday, March 12, HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing published a Question and Answer document to help housing providers navigate COVID-19, the novel coronavirus that was recently declared a global health emergency.
On March 6, LeadingAge wrote to the White House Coronavirus Task Force, led by Vice President Mike Pence, urging increased HUD attention to senior affordable housing communities faced with the coronavirus outbreak.
LeadingAge affordable housing members and their residents are in need of HUD-specific guidance related to emergency equipment, supplies, and staffing, as well as guidance on how quarantines would work within an affordable community, visitor policies for health services staff and for non-health service staff, and for more communication with providers and residents.
Because older adults with existing health conditions are more susceptible to the effects of infectious diseases, the threat of an outbreak may cause heightened concern in senior housing communities. Fortunately, affordable housing providers can take the following simple steps to prepare for emergencies.
Here’s an overview of our work for you in February 2020.
We know that flu-like viruses are disproportionately risky for older adults, and the coronavirus is no exception. Because older adults with housing instability are especially vulnerable, preparedness is critical at this stage. Here are some tips for LeadingAge affordable housing members to help prepare communities, residents, and staff.
Just down the road from Hop Meadow Country Club in Simsbury, CT is McLean, a LeadingAge member LPC that takes its inspiration from the bucolic natural beauty that embodies the campus. Like many other LPCs, McLean offers Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Support and Health Services – and is embarking on an expansion.
Heads-Up, LPCs! A variety of new and unexpected housing providers are entering the senior living marketplace. These unorthodox aging services interlopers are bringing with them their knowledge, competency, and skill sets in areas that matter to our consumer base – and they are creating cool, innovative models that, quite frankly, are hard to resist.
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