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 and other entities across the country that received FSS awards for FY 08 and the corresponding award amounts. [Download.]

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 24 CFR part 982.314(e)(1)” and sets forth the penalties that will be imposed on PHAs that wrongfully deny such a request. This Notice updates and supersedes the portability guidance originally issued in HUD Notice PIH 2004-12. [Download]

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 is December 29, 2008, but comments may be submitted through January 27, 2009. Meliah Schultzman (mschultzman@nhlp.org) of the National Housing Law Project is coordinating comment submission for members of the Housing Justice Network and other interested tenant/housing advocates.

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 table listing FMRs for individual areas. [Download.]

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 funds to state and local governments to acquire and redevelop foreclosed properties that are or at risk of becoming blighted areas. NSP is considered a CDBG program and thus governed by CDGB regs, unless otherwise indicated in HERA. The link at the end of this post takes you to the HUD webpage that provides links to the regs at 73 FR 58330 and handy links listing state and local allocations. Note that states and localities must submit NSP plans to HUD by December 1, 2008. [Download.]

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 students who were already utilizing the program as of November 30, 2005 to receive assistance. This final rule takes effect on September 22, 2005. [Download]