HUD announces Housing Choice Voucher Mobility Demonstration and commemorates the first anniversary of the Foster Youth to Independence (FYI) initiative. NYCHA program helps woman launch her own business. Affordable housing complexes coming to ID and NYC, and more.

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Secretary Ben Carson announces HUD’s new Housing Choice Voucher Mobility Demonstration

On Tuesday, July 21, HUD Secretary Ben Carson announced the Housing Choice Voucher Mobility Demonstration. The demonstration allows participating PHAs to implement housing mobility programs by offering mobility-related services to increase the number of voucher families with children living in opportunity areas. PHAs will also be able to adopt administrative policies that further enable housing mobility, increase landlord participation, and reduce barriers for families to move across PHA jurisdictions through portability. Read more

HUD Secretary Ben Carson commemorates the first anniversary of the Foster Youth to Independence (FYI) initiative

On July 24, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Secretary Ben Carson commemorated the one year anniversary of the Foster Youth to Independence (FYI) initiative by meeting with voucher recipients and holding a roundtable with local leaders. Read more

Appropriations Committee approves the 2021 fiscal year THUD funding bill, Eviction Prevention and Stability Toolkit announced on July 8, Stanislaus Regional Housing Authority to renovate a Modesto hotel into apartments, and more.

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Appropriations Committee approves fiscal year 2021 Transportation-Housing and Urban Development funding bill

The 2021 fiscal year funding provides $158.3 billion in base budgetary resources. $75 billion of these funds are allocated to support the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Read more

Florida will give $120 million to families in affordable housing, Portland opened a 203-unit affordable community, Santa Barbara's Housing Authority is working on a 29-unit housing project, and more.

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Florida will give out $240 million in Federal CARES Act funds

$120 million of the funds will go to families living in affordable housing units. These funds will help cover rent from July through December. There is also the option of applying the money to rent from April to June this year. Read more

HUD announces grants for housing counseling and Foster Youth to Independence Initiative. Protecting young people from homelessness, strategies for increasing affordable housing amid COVID-19, and more.

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HUD awarded nearly $40 million in housing counseling grants on Tuesday, June 16

The grant will help households find affordable rental housing. Agencies can also use the funds to support emergency preparedness and disaster recovery efforts. Read more

HUD Secretary Ben Carson announced nearly $77 million in a fourth wave of CARES Act funding. Michigan, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Arizona all received funds. Ted Houghton shares why it's a good time for city governments to invest in housing.

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On May 18, 2020, HUD Secretary Ben Carson announced nearly $77 million in a fourth wave of CARES Act funding

The fourth wave of relief funds will provide support for up to 8,300 housing choice vouchers to public housing authorities. These funds will also provide affordable housing to non-elderly people living with disabilities. Read more