This week on HUDCLIPS, the Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) posted the newly published and highly anticipated Capital Fund Guidebook, Handbook 7600.1. The guidebook is meant to be taken along with the capital fund program final rule to ensure that the capital fund program is more efficiently and uniformly implemented by PHAs and managed more effectively by HUD field offices. The final rule was published on October 24, 2013, but until now the guidebook had yet to be issued.
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
NMA's online PHM certification now revised and updated for 2015!
Posted by
BEMuser on Apr 24, 2015 10:02:25 AM
Did you know you can receive an official PHM certification without leaving your desk? Nan McKay and Associates and HTVN are now offering our Public Housing Management (PHM) certification online.
Topics: Capital Fund, Eligibility, Fair Housing, Final Rule, Flat Rent, HTVN, IACET, Occupancy, Online Learning, PHAS, Public Housing Management, Rent Calculation, VAWA
The latest version of the NMA Public Housing Assessment System (PHAS) Master Book has shipped, and subscribers to our annual revision service can expect to receive it this week or next. If you have any questions about your subscription, please contact Laurie Durrett in our accounting department and she'll be happy to assist you.
Topics: Books and Revision Services, Capital Fund, PHAS
Obama administration releases proposed budget for FFY 2016
Posted by
BEMuser on Feb 3, 2015 3:30:46 PM
Yesterday the Obama administration released its proposed budget for federal fiscal year (FFY) 2016. As part of the budget rollout, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published a summary of its portion of the 2016 budget and discussed the budget in a town hall meeting broadcast yesterday.
Topics: Appropriations, Capital Fund, Choice Neighborhoods, Domestic Violence, FSS, MTW, Operating Subsidy, RAD, Sequestration, VASH, VAWA, Veterans
