This week on the physical needs assessment (PNA) web page, HUD posted a report to Congress on the status of the PNA proposed rule. This week’s report, dated July 2015, follows HUD’s first PNA progress report issued in 2014. Congress directed HUD to expand upon the 2014 report to implement more detailed requirements for the PNA, specifically to:
Topics: Energy Efficiency, Final Rule, PNA, Proposed Rule
Last Friday HUD announced that it has scheduled the first in a series of trainings on the capital fund guidebook. Issued October 24, 2013, the capital fund program final rule:
Topics: Capital Fund, Energy Efficiency, Final Rule, PNA
Congress to act soon on omnibus appropriations bill for 2015
Yesterday Congressman Hal Rogers (R-KY), chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, introduced an omnibus bill (H.R. 83) to wrap up all of the unfinished appropriations business for federal fiscal year (FFY) 2015. You can read the text of the HUD portion of the bill here (see PDF pages 38 to 55) and the HUD portion of the explanatory statement here. In brief, the bill provides the following amounts for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD):
Topics: Appropriations, Capital Fund, Flat Rent, Operating Subsidy, PNA, RAD, VASH, Veterans
This week on the physical needs assessment (PNA) webpage, HUD posted a report to Congress on the status of the PNA proposed rule. As part of the fiscal year 2014 appropriations act, Congress directed HUD to “take every possible measure to ensure that any new reporting requirements associated with the PNA process do not increase administrative burden on PHAs.” HUD was also directed to report on measures taken to relieve such burdens.
Topics: Appropriations, Energy Efficiency, Final Rule, PNA, Proposed Rule
How does the capital fund final rule affect PHAs? Part II
Late last year, HUD published the much-anticipated capital fund final rule in the Federal Register. Effective November 25, 2013, the new regulation combined and streamlined former capital fund program (CFP) requirements for rehabilitation and development into one comprehensive regulation.
Topics: Capital Fund, Final Rule, PNA, SEMAP