Housing News

Read CHAPA's May Housing Briefs for state updates, federal updates, and recent research and reports!  

Boston's City Council voted 12-1 to put the Community Preservation Act on the November ballot. Click here for the WGBH News story.

First-ever allocations to help States produce affordable housing

      2016 MASSACHUSETTS SMART GROWTH CONFERENCEThursday, June 2 DCU Center in Worcester

Last week, the House Committee on Ways and Means (HWM) released its state budget recommendations for fiscal year 2016 (FY2016). The budget includes strong support for many affordable housing, homelessness prevention, and community development programs. Click here for an overview of how CHAPA’s priorities were funded in the HWM budget proposal.

39 public housing agencies will continue to enjoy greater program flexibility WASHINGTON – Thirty-nine local public housing agencies across the country will continue to enjoy significantly greater flexibility to operate their federally funded housing programs following an announcement today by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).  Existing agreements under HUD’s Moving to Work (MTW) Demonstration Program for 39 public housing authorities (PHAs) will now continue in effect until 2028.

Read CHAPA's April Housing Briefs for state updates, federal updates, and recent research and reports!  

The Moving to Work (MTW) Office announced that Congress, as part of the 2016 Consolidated Appropriations Act, has authorized HUD to expand the MTW demonstration program by an additional 100 high performing Public Housing Authorities (PHA) over a period of seven years.  HUD seeks to solicit recommendations for specific policy proposals and methods of research and evaluation to be implemented as part of the expansion of the MTW demonstration.  Agencies will be added to the MTW demonstration by cohort and the Act requires that for each cohort of agencies “the Secretary shall direct one specifi

On March 29th, Brenda Clement was on Boomer Generation Radio and discussed how the growing gap between housing costs and what people can afford negatively impacts different communities and age groups.

HUD posted its 2016 income limits effective March 28.  Background information and individual area documentation can be found at https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/il/il16/index.html. Click here for the income limits for MA.