Section 8    Stories 1 to 8 of 8  (click headline for the complete story)

1:   (HOUSING) Voucher Hopefuls Swarm Agency : About 30,000 Sec. 8 housing voucher hopefuls besieged East Point Housing Authority (EPHA) in a suburban Atlanta, GA shopping center where agency officials were distributing applications for about 655 units of subsidized housing. East Point officials... 08/13/2010 3:08 PM

2:   (STATES) Mandatory Sec. 8 Recognition Advances : Increasingly, states and communities are adopting laws and ordinances barring landlords from rejecting Sec. 8 housing voucher holders strictly on the basis of source of income. Landlords have been able to reject Sec. 8 participants, claiming the aid ... 06/18/2010 3:06 PM

3:   (LOCAL) OIG Asks TX City to Return Sec. 8 Funds Used for Ineligible Development Costs : The City of Georgetown, TX Housing Authority (GHA) is asked to return nearly $50,000 to the federal Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program funds for ineligible development costs and to hire an independent firm to review $137,009 in ineligible and unsup... 06/15/2010 8:41 PM

4:   (RULES) HUD Kills Hold-Harmless Policy, Allows Range from Income Limit : HUD eliminates the "hold-harmless" policy for its Sec. 8 program and continues earlier changes made where multi-family tax subsidy projects (MTSP) financed with tax-exempt bonds are concerned, paving the way for the announcement of the 2010 income li... 05/18/2010 1:06 PM

5:   (FUNDING) Deadline Set for PHAs to Apply for Non-Elderly Disabled Sec. 8 Vouchers : HUD sets a July 7 deadline for public housing agencies (PHAs) to apply for $30 million in Sec. 8 housing vouchers that would provide housing units for non-elderly disabled persons. The HUD money is issued through the fiscal year 2009 Sec. 8 Housing ... 04/08/2010 4:43 PM

6:   (HOUSING) Galveston Issues Plans for Sec. 8 Housing : (CD Publications) -- Galveston Housing Authority (GHA) officials map plans to provide 100 apartments and duplexes for low-income families on the island devastated by Hurricane Ike in 2008. GHA won't be able to count the units toward its pledge to rep... 04/02/2010 4:46 PM

7:   (OIG) Grand Rapids Officials Asked to Justify $3 million in Sec. 8 Spending : HUD's Office of Inspector General (OIG) asks Grand Rapids, MI officials to return more than $100,000 in Sec. 8 program funding and justify $3 million in spending after an audit showed the city inadequately administered the program. OIG's audit of th... 12/08/2009 10:31 AM

8:   (OIG) HUD Asked to Improve Monitoring of Sec. 8 Payments to Deceased : HUD is being asked to improve monitoring of agencies receiving Sec. 8 funds to better measure reported data in its information systems and to measure progress in reducing the payments made to thousands of deceased tenants, estimated at $7 million. T... 11/17/2009 4:08 PM

 

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