We are very interested in facilitating the timely replacement of your contract when funding is received. We hope to receive funding from HUD in the very near future, and will be sending replacement contracts for the signature of the owner at that time. Upon receipt, please have the owner execute the contract and sign immediately and return to NTHDC so we can complete the process as soon as possible.

To view the revised HAP Contracts please click on the following link

==>HAP Contracts Effective August 2007

A link to the Notice that will be published in the Federal Register may be found under What’s New on the Multifamily Housing website at:  http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/hsgmulti.cfm.

The FY2009 median family income estimates include several changes from previous years.  All of these changes can be found in the documentation released today.  The highlights include the incorporation of newly released ACS three year estimates covering 2005 – 2007, the elimination of the reliance upon BLS data in the smallest areas and the incorporation of OMB area changes first implemented with HUD’s release of FY2009 Fair Market Rents.

Also new for FY2009, HUD has developed a new website and tables of information specifically for users interested in obtaining data for use with Internal Revenue Code Section 42 Low-Income Housing Tax Credit projects and Section 142 projects financed with private activity bonds.  Projects in these 2 categories are now referred to by HUD as Multifamily Tax Subsidy Projects (MTSPs).  Documentation and data can be found at www.huduser.org/datasets/mtsp.hmtl.  Furthermore, HUD has developed an interactive documentation system for these data which will allow the user to select any area of the county and receive a summary of the appropriate income limits and maximum rental rates for these areas.  Links from the summary page will show exactly how the data were derived.  This system can be accessed directly at www.huduser.org/datasets/il/index_mtsp.html.

Users interested in HUD’s Section 8 income limits or users looking for income limits associated with IRC section 143 projects should visit http://www.huduser.org/datasets/il/il09/index.html.  The updated FY2009 documentation system for these data can be accessed directly at http://www.huduser.org/datasets/il/index_il2009.html. 

• Permits increased distributions to for-profit owners that have or are willing to enter into long term Section 8 contracts.
• Directs the Owner to use the project’s current debt service when preparing a budget-based rent increase. 

• Attachment 21, Consent to Assignment of HAP Contract as Security for Financing.
• Attachment 22, Consent to Assignment of HAP Contract as Security for FNMA Financing.
• Attachment 23, Consent to Assignment of HAP Contract as Security for FREDDIE MAC Financing.
• Attachment 24, Consent to Assignment as Security For FNMA Credit Enhancement

• Section 7-9, Preservation Updates, has been added to Chapter 7.  It discusses shallow rent subsidy and new debt in a budget-based rent increase.
• Section 16-1.C.2. has been updated to clarify when more than one rent adjustment is permitted.
• Section 16-2, REMS Reporting, has been removed and the remaining sections of Chapter 16 are renumbered. 
• The new Section 16-3 contains a clarification concerning the use of the debt service associated with the current financing when computing an OCAF rent adjustment. 
• Appendix 15-2 has been revised to be an Addendum to the Renewal Contract. 
• Attachment 1, Acronyms, has been updated. 
• Attachment 7, Section 8 Renewal Help Desk Contacts, is being removed.  The Department maintains an up-to-date list of Section 8 Renewal Help Desk Contacts on the web at:

"There is nothing more important than the health and safety of our children, and these grants are a significant investment in their futures," said HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan. "These grants will support the efforts of state and local governments to clean up lead hazards in order to protect young children and their families from the lasting effects of lead poisoning."

Even though lead-based paint was banned for use in the home in 1978, HUD estimates that approximately 24 million homes still have significant lead-based paint hazards today. Lead-contaminated dust is the primary cause of young children's lead exposure and can lead to a variety of health problems, including reduced IQ, learning disabilities, developmental delays, reduced height, and impaired hearing. At higher levels, lead can damage a child's kidneys and central nervous system and cause anemia, coma, convulsions and even death.

Applicants for this funding may be State, Tribal or local governments. Applications may be downloaded from the Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control's Website at www.hud.gov/lead. The application provides instructions, including submitting proposals by Federal Express (FedEx), United Parcel Services (UPS) and overnight Express Mail delivery services. The deadline for receiving grants is 5:00 PM eastern time, July 20, 2009.

This year, HUD is announcing individual funding opportunities for programs as they become available, an action that will speed up the application process for those seeking HUD funding and who would otherwise be required to wait for the publication of HUD's comprehensive funding notice for all its competitive grant programs.

• Model Lease for Subsidized Programs (HUD-90105-A)
• Model Lease for Section 202/8 or Section 202 PAC (HUD-90105-B)
• Model Lease for Section 202 PRAC (HUD-90105-C)
• Model Lease for Section 811 PRAC (HUD-90105-D)

1. Document Package for Applicant’s/Tenant’s Consent to the Release of Information (HUD 9887/A, Form HUD 9887, and Relevant Verifications)
2. **Sample** Annual Recertification Initial Notice (HUD Handbook 4350.3, Exhibit 7-1)
3. **Sample** Annual Recertification First Reminder Notice (HUD Handbook 4350.3, Exhibit 7-2)
4. **Sample** Annual Recertification Second Reminder Notice (HUD Handbook 4350.3, Exhibit 7-3)
5. **Sample** Annual Recertification Third Reminder Notice / Notice of Termination (HUD Handbook 4350.3, Exhibit 7-4)
6. **Sample** Model Form of Notification of Rent Increase Resulting from Recertification Processing (HUD Handbook 4350.3, Exhibit 7-6)
7. **Sample** Interim Adjustment Initial Notice (HUD Handbook 4350.3, Exhibit 7-7)
8. **Sample** Interim Adjustment Termination of Assistance(HUD Handbook 4350.3, Exhibit 7-8)

HUD still encourages Owners and Agents as well as other Industry Partners to comment on the revised guidance. Please send all comments and questions  via e-mail to PPSDCommunications@hud.gov by August 20, 2009. Please ensure that you put Chapter 6, 4350.1 in the subject line.

“Social Security is doing its job helping Americans maintain their standard of living,” Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security said.  “Last year when consumer prices spiked, largely as a result of higher gas prices, beneficiaries received a 5.8 percent COLA, the largest increase since 1982.  This year, in light of the human need, we need to support President Obama’s call for us to make another $250 recovery payment for 57 million Americans.”
The Social Security Act provides that Social Security and Supplemental Security Income benefits increase automatically each year if there is an increase in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) from the third quarter of the last year to the third quarter of the current year.  This year there was no increase in the CPI-W from the third quarter of 2008 to the third quarter of 2009.  In addition, because there was no increase in the CPI-W this year, under the law the starting point for determinations regarding a possible 2011 COLA will remain the third quarter of 2008.

Some other changes that would normally take effect in January 2010 based on the increase in average wages also will not take effect, even though average wages did increase.  Since there is no COLA, the statute prohibits an increase in the maximum amount of earnings subject to the Social Security tax as well as the retirement earnings test exempt amounts.  These amounts will remain unchanged in 2010.  The attached fact sheet provides more information on 2010 Social Security changes.

Information about Medicare changes for 2010, when available, will be found at www.Medicare.gov.  The Department of Health and Human Services has not yet announced if there will be any Medicare premium changes for 2010.  Should there be an increase in the Medicare Part B premium, the law contains a “hold harmless” provision that protects about 93 percent of Social Security beneficiaries from paying a higher Part B premium, in order to avoid reducing their net Social Security benefit.  Those not protected include higher income beneficiaries subject to an income-adjusted Part B premium and beneficiaries newly entitled to Part B in 2010.  On September 24th, the House passed legislation by 406-18 that would, on a fully paid-for basis, prevent abnormally large premium increases.  The President is calling on the Senate to enact this legislation before it becomes too late for the Social Security Administration to update its computer systems to implement this needed change.

For additional information about the 2010 COLA, go to www.socialsecurity.gov/cola.

HUD is currently preparing a letter which  will ask each HUD office to send to the impacted owners.  The letter should be coming to you by early next week.

 
OMB justification for exemption from Section 1512 of ARRA:The Project-based Rental Assistance (PBRA) program provides rental assistance to low-income tenants in nearly 1.3 million housing units.  Residents generally pay 30 percent of their income toward rent and HUD pays the balance of rent and utilities to private owners/landlords of multifamily rental properties. The PBRA program is tantamount to individual benefit programs, which provide assistance to individuals to meet or help meet particular needs, such as paying for medical care, food, or college tuition.  In the PBRA program, the benefit provided is quality, safe, and affordable housing and the beneficiaries are low-income families.  Although Federal payments are made directly to owners/landlords, those payments are not intended for the benefit of the owners/landlords.  They are merely the mechanism for delivering the benefit to low-income families.  As with other individual benefit programs, families must meet certain eligibility criteria to qualify for assistance.  For example, they must be at or below 80 percent of area median income. 

Because the PBRA program is tantamount to an individual benefits program, and because 31 U.S.C. 7501(a) excludes from the term “Federal financial assistance” amounts received as reimbursement for services rendered to individuals in accordance with guidance issued by the Director, the program is properly excluded from 1512 reporting.

This brochure is available in thirteen different languages and can be found at http://www.hud.gov/offices/fheo/promotingfh/lep.cfm#Booklets You can also order this brochure free of charge by contacting the Clearinghouse at 1-800-685-8470.

Download Document here

In order to provide easier access to the Resident’s Rights and Responsibilities brochures a link to the English version was placed on the FHEO site along with the other 13 translated editions of the document.  Users can go to http://www.hud.gov/offices/fheo/promotingfh/lep.cfm, scroll down to “Resident’s Rights and Responsibilities Brochure.”  Those interested in finding the English version on the HUD’s Multifamily website can still find it located at http://www.hud.gov/groups/tenants.cfm  Also, please remember that the Department has provided copies of the English document and the translations available from the Multifamily Housing Clearinghouse.  The Clearinghouse can be reached by calling 1-800-685-8470. 

DON'T WAIT - ACT NOW!

 Housing Notice 10-02, was posted on HUDclips yesterday. This notice states that owners, “using the EIV system must provide each tenant household with the EIV & You brochure at the time of annual recertification along with a copy of the HUD Fact Sheet  “How Your Rent is Determined”.  O/As must also provide applicant households who have been selected from the waiting list for screening and final application processing with a copy of the EIV & You brochure.  The brochure will be translated into thirteen languages for distribution to non-English speaking households.”

 You can find the notice by following this link: portal.hud.gov/portal/page/portal/HUD/program_offices/administration/hudclips/notices/hsg/files/10-02hsgn.doc

In order to attend, you must RSVP through www.nthdc.org. If you have any topics you wish to have included in any of the presentations, please send your request using this link.

Regards,

NTHDC Staff

https://hudapps1.hud.gov/apps/part_reg/apps040.cfm

http://www.hud.gov/emarc/ 

WASHINGTON - U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to storm-ravaged Volusia County in Florida and provide support to homeowners and low-income renters forced from their homes following severe storms, flooding, straight-line winds, and tornadoes last week.

Yesterday, President Obama issued a disaster declaration in Volusia County allowing the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to extend disaster assistance through its Individual Assistance Program to families. The President's declaration also allows HUD to offer foreclosure relief and other assistance to certain families living in the county.

This presidential declaration triggers a variety of federal assistance including grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the disaster.

"Families who may have been forced from their homes need to know that help is available to begin the rebuilding process," said Donovan. "Whether it's foreclosure relief for FHA-insured families or helping these counties to recover, HUD stands ready to help in any way we can."

HUD is:  

  * Offering the State of Florida the ability to re-allocate existing federal resources toward disaster relief - HUD's Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME programs give the State the flexibility to redirect millions of dollars to address critical needs, including housing and services for flood victims. HUD is currently contacting State and local officials to explore streamlining the Department's CDBG and HOME programs in order to expedite the repair and replacement of damaged housing;
    * Granting immediate foreclosure relief - HUD granted a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures and forbearance on foreclosures of Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured home mortgages;
    * Making mortgage insurance available - HUD's Section 203(h) program provides FHA insurance to disaster victims who have lost their homes and are facing the daunting task of rebuilding or buying another home. Borrowers from participating FHA-approved lenders are eligible for 100 percent financing, including closing costs;
    * Making insurance available for both mortgages and home rehabilitation - HUD's Section 203(k) loan program enables those who have lost their homes to finance the purchase or refinance of a house along with its repair through a single mortgage. It also allows homeowners who have damaged houses to finance the rehabilitation of their existing single-family home; and
    * Offering Section 108 loan guarantee assistance - HUD will offer state and local governments federally guaranteed loans for housing rehabilitation, economic development and repair of public infrastructure. For more information about these and other HUD programs designed to assist disaster victims, visit HUD's website.

The Refinement of Income and Rent Determination Requirements in Public and Assisted Housing Final Rule CANNOT be implemented prior to the current effective date of September 30, 2009.  Also, existing tenants and applicants are encouraged to start the process of applying for a Social Security Number (SSN) if they do not already have them.  The majority of current tenants without SSNs are under the age of six. 

http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-1248.pdf

 http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/hudclips/notices/hsg/