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• President’s Forum: Thank you, Chairman Olver
  House Appropriations Bill is a Good Start
  Bill’s Fate Uncertain

• An Analysis of HUD’s PETRA Proposal
  What is Known about It at Present and the Type of Properties Where It Might be Successful

• Emergency Safety and Security Funding Announced
  Up to $7 Million Available -- First Come, First Served

• Small Area Fair Market Rents Deserve a Fair Test

• Public Housing Reform Alternatives
  One Size Only Fits a Few; A Few Sizes Fit Some; Many Sizes Can Fit All

• ARRA, Spending and the August Recess
  Show Congress Your ARRA Improvements; Tell About Your Agency’s Capital Needs

• President's Forum: PHADA’s Successful Annual Meeting
  Convention Presentations Catalogued on PHADA Website

• PHADA Raises Questions Whether PETRA Conversion Will Increase Funding for Managing Public Housing
  Also Skeptical of Leveraging Potential

• REAC Meeting Re-Examines Purpose of Physical Inspections
  Agencies Make Strong Case for REAC Improvements

• PETRA Legislation Receives Rocky Reception at House Hearing
  Committee Members, Panelists Voice Serious Concerns

• President’s Forum: A Mid-Year Report
  Much Work Remains in the Second Half of 2010

• HUD Prepares for a Fair Market Rent Demonstration

• HUD Submits Legislative Language for Public Housing Conversion Program
  Gives Secretary Broad Powers to Apply Policies, such as Resident Choice, Across all HUD Rental Assistance Programs

• HUD Holds a Town Hall Meeting on the Preservation, Enhancement and Transformation of Rental Assistance (PETRA) Act of 2010
  Full Court Press on the Bill Continues

• President’s Forum: Many New Faces Expected on Capitol Hill in 2011
  Housing Professionals Need to Establish Ongoing Communications with All Elected Officials

• PHADA Testifies on Two Public Housing Legislative Proposals
  Frank and Waters Prepare to Submit Proposals

• Chairman Frank Develops Public Housing Preservation Bill
  Includes Proposal to Freeze Utility Rolling Base for 20 Years

• President’s Forum: PHADA Annual Meeting Just Weeks Away
  We Want Your Participation

• Public Housing One-for-One Replacement and Tenant Protection Act of 2010
  Chairperson Maxine Waters Prepares a Discussion Draft

• Tenant Group and PHADA Share Some TRA Concerns

• Transforming Rental Assistance:
  A 21st Century Approach to Providing Rental Assistance
  By U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan

• PHADA Submits Comments to HUD on Transforming Rental Assistance (TRA)

• President’s Forum: Congressional Budget Process Behind Schedule
  HUD Appropriations Bill Could Again be Delayed

• TRA Proposal Will Use Mark-To-Market Template
  M2M May Determine Financing Structure and Rents

• Secretary Donovan Testifies Concerning HUD 2011 Legislative Proposals
  Transformation of Rental Assistance and Choice Neighborhoods Initiative Covered

• PHADA Comments on Choice Neighborhoods
  Funding, Complexity and Lack of Commitment to PH Cited

• HUD Makes Changes to Transforming Rental Assistance (TRA) Initiative
  Project-Based Assistance Option (with Mobility Component) Made Available

• Industry Professionals Join HUD’s Leadership Team

• President’s Forum: Conversion is a Good Concept, But Not a Panacea
  Many HAs Need Other Options to Improve Their Stock, Operations

• HUD’s Information Infrastructure Sometimes Burden HAs

• President’s Forum: Happy Anniversary - A Job Well Done
  HAs Obligate More than 99 Percent of ARRA Funds

• A Small HA Reform Proposal Based on a HUD Commissioned Report

• HUD Releases Data to Industry Groups
  Statistics Support Frozen Rental Income and Frozen Rolling Base Proposals

• Choice Neighborhoods Hearing
  Funding Level, Funding Sources Questioned

• President’s Forum: New Leadership for REAC
  A Good Choice by Assistant Secretary Henriquez

• HUD Consults with HAs on SEMAP and Portability

• PHADA & NAHRO Launch Small PHA Proposal
  Industry Uses HUD-Study Recommendations for Reform Push

• HUD Budget Hearing Raises Two Issues

• Bollinger Foundation Seeks Nominations for Scholarship Grants - Deadline May 14

• HUD Extends SAGIS 2010 Operating Fund Deadline to March 31, 2010
  Also Extends FDS submission deadlines to 3/31/2010

• House Appropriations Hearing on FY2011 HUD Budget
  Budget Shuffles Money Around, Away from Cap Fund

• President’s Forum: A Couple of Housing Programs Should Be Frozen (like the recent weather) in Washington

• Housing Choice Voucher 2010 Funding Notice Issued
  Housing Assistance Payments Set at 99.5 Percent Proration

• Department of Energy Changes Weatherization Rules
  Existing Rules Complicate the Use of ARRA Weatherization Support in Public and Multifamily Housing

• White House FY2011 Budget Released
  Mixed News for HAs

• HUD 2011 Budget Contains Proposal to Transform Public Housing
  Based on Conversion to Project Based Vouchers; Includes Resident Mobility and Regionalization of Section 8

• President’s Forum: Work Begins on FY ‘11 HUD Budget
  PHADA To Advance Its Priorities With Congress

• The Senate May Consider a Jobs Bill
  PHADA Members Can Help Improve the Bill

• In Memory of Jack G. Womack

• HUD Provides Information on PHAS Obligations
  Data Must Be Submitted for HAs with Fiscal Year Ends Ranging from 6/30/09 to 3/31/10

• President’s Forum: Center on Budget Policy & Priorities Wrong (Again) on MTW

• REAC Issues New Details on Technical Reviews and Database Adjustments
  Overzealous Bureaucracy Requires Unrealistic and Unnecessary Documentation

• Federalizing State Sponsored Public Housing with the ARRA
  An Unexpected Increase in the Public Housing Inventory

• NSP2 Awards Nearly $2 Billion
  HAs are Awardees and Participants

• Issues and Benefits of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

• President’s Forum: The Outlook for 2010
  Budget and Election Season Will Affect HAs – Again

• House Passes Another Stimulus Bill
  Includes $1 Billion in Competitive Capital Funds

• Frozen Rental Income Provision Lapses in 2010
  Latest HUD Data Show Continued Rental Revenue Gains in 2008