HUD Stop Loss

Under the new Operating Fund rule, PHAs that will experience a decline in funding can have their losses “stopped” by demonstrating a successful conversion to asset management, i.e., “stop-loss.” This website contains information for PHAs regarding Stop-Loss.

	PIH Notice 2007-16, This notice provides information for public housing agencies (PHAs) that wish to submit documentation of successful conversation to asset management in order to discontinue their reduction in operating subsidy.
	PIH Notice 2006-35, This notice amends PIH notice, PIH 2006-14 (HA), issued, March 22, 2006, to extend the application submission deadline to qualify for the first stop-loss deadline to April 15, 2007. As provided in PIH 2006-14, stop-loss applies only to PHAs that [...]
	PIH Notice 2006-14, Operating Fund Program Final Rule: Transition Funding and Guidance on Demonstration of Successful Conversion to Asset Management to Discontinue the Reduction of Operating Subsidy, issued March 22, 2006.
	Demonstrating Successful Conversion To Asset Management: A Site Visit to the Charlotte Housing Authority
	Stop-Loss Submission Kit Stop-Loss Kit Fillable Forms Attachment A - Check List Required Information Attachment B - PHA Data Form Attachment C - Certification of Long Term Capital Planning Attachment D - Certificate of Compliance with Risk Management Responsibilities Description of How Management Services Are Arranged Sample Fillable Excel Site Budget Form
	Frequently Asked Questions
	Frequently Asked Questions - Stop Loss Extension
	Frequently Asked Questions - Fee for Service - This is in response to recently received questions from PHAs that are preparing their Year 1 Stop Loss applications.(Posted: March 16, 2007)
	Additional Frequently Asked Questions Related to Stop Loss - Part I - As the deadline for Year One applications for stop loss approaches, PHAs have generated a number of questions. (Posted: March 21, 2007)
	Additional Frequently Asked Questions Related to Stop Loss - Part II (Posted: April 3, 2007)

About The HOPE VI Program

Overview

The HOPE VI program serves a vital role in the Department of Housing and Urban Development's efforts to transform Public Housing.

The specific elements of public housing transformation that have proven key to HOPE VI include:

• Changing the physical shape of public housing
• Establishing positive incentives for resident self-sufficiency and comprehensive services that empower residents
• Lessening concentrations of poverty by placing public housing in nonpoverty neighborhoods and promoting mixed-income communities
• Forging partnerships with other agencies, local governments, nonprofit organizations, and private businesses to leverage support and resources

Eligible Applicants

Any Public Housing Authority that has severely distressed public housing units in its inventory is eligible to apply. Indian Housing Authorities and Public Housing Authorities that only administer the Housing Choice Vouchers (Section 8) Program are NOT eligible to apply. Individuals are also NOT eligible to apply.

Funding Opportunities

HOPE VI Revitalization grants fund:

• Capital costs of major rehabilitation, new construction and other physical improvements
• Demolition of severely distressed public housing
• Acquisition of sites for off-site construction
• Community and supportive service programs for residents, including those relocated as a result of revitalization efforts

HOPE VI Main Street grants provide assistance to smaller communities in the development of affordable housing that is undertaken in connection with a Main Street revitalization effort.

History and Background

National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing
The HOPE VI Program, originally known as the Urban Revitalization Demonstration (URD), was developed as a result of recommendations by the National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing, which was charged with proposing a National Action Plan to eradicate severely distressed public housing. The Commission recommended revitalization in three general areas:

• physical improvements,
• management improvements, and
• social and community services to address resident needs.

As a result, HOPE VI was created by the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993 (Pub.L. 102-389), approved on October 6, 1992.

HOPE VI Appropriations and Funding History

	FY 2006 Funding Information
	FY 2005 Funding Information
	FY 2004 Funding Information
	FY 2003 Funding Information
	FY 2002 Funding Information
	FY 2001 Funding Information
	FY 2000 Funding Information
	FY 1997-1999 Grant History
	HOPE VI Appropriations
	Program Authority and Funding History

Program Authority

HOPE VI operated solely by congressional appropriation from FY 1993 - 1999. The FY 1999 appropriation included the congressional authorization of HOPE VI as Section 24 of the U.S. Housing Act of 1937. Section 24 was implemented in the FY 2000 NOFA, and was reauthorized in conjunction with the American Dream Downpayment Act of 2003. Grants are governed by each Fiscal Year's Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA), as published in the Federal Register, and the Grant Agreement executed between each recipient and HUD.

Grants Awarded

Awards	Grant FY Totals	Funding
35	Planning Grants 1993-1995	$14,752,081
236	Revitalization Grants 1993-2006	$5,828,856,376
285	Demolition Grants 1996-2003	$391,585,505
45	Neighborhood Networks 2002-2003	$9,967,500
6	Main Street Grants 2005-2006	$2,959,509
607	Total	$6,248,120,971

About Us

Housing Research is private, nonprofit organization based in metro Washington, D.C. (United States). We are concerned with improving America’s public housing through research, education, and technical assistance.

This website and blog concentrates on two public housing issues: ‘the revitalization of severely distressed properties and communities through the HOPE VI program, and the challenge of providing a continuum of supportive housing options for low-income seniors and disabled persons‘.

The site collates detailed information, links to websites, and press cuttings about different aspects of these two issues. In addition, reports and further documents are provided in PDF format (which require the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader to view).

For further information on Housing Research.org write: Leon “Nathaniel” Rock, CEO HousingResearch.org@GMail.com or contact us by phone at: (202) 204-2700

Chicago Residents Join Rally to Save Atlanta Public Housing

By Matthew Cardinale, News Editor, The Atlanta Progressive News (June 27, 2007)

Photographs by Jonathan Springston, Senior Staff Writer

(APN) ATLANTA Residents of, and advocates for, Chicago public housing joined Atlanta residents and advocates today for a rally at Atlanta City Hall. About 100 in total protested Atlanta's plans to demolish public housing. The rally coincided with the first day of the US Social Forum.

Organizations represented included the Task Force for the Homeless, ACORN, Women in Transition, Poor People's Human Rights Campaign, and Atlanta public housing resident associations. Tuna sandwiches and orange-colored drink were served for the homeless.

"I heard there's a public housing crisis. I said, oh no, that's where I wanna be. This is public housing people. This is family," Willie JR Fleming, of the Coalition to Protect Public Housing, said.

"This is a clear cut national plan of economic cleansing. In United Nations talk, this is an atrocity, a crime against humanity. This is what we call human rights violations," Fleming said.

"We're here to protect rights of public housing [residents]. We represent ten Housing Associations. We're at risk of being displaced. There's organizations coming in, condos. They said it's [Chicago public housing units are] physically obsolete. We want a structural engineer to come in. They're trying to block her," Lonnie Richardson, of Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP), in Chicago, said.

More HERE

Federal Budget Cuts' Impact Public Housing

10 percent of phoenix's public housing units empty.

Crystal Lopez paints the toenails of her daughter Alexis, 2, while Areana, 5, and Anthony, 11 months, play outside her Phoenix apartment. Lopez says she moved more than 15 times in the two years she waited to get into public housing.

Thousands of people in Phoenix are waiting for a place to call home

Casey Newton
The Arizona Republic

More than 13,000 people are desperate to move into Phoenix public housing, which offers stable, affordable and relatively safe housing to the city's poorest residents.

Despite the long waiting list, nearly 10 percent of Phoenix's public housing is vacant, with the average unit sitting empty for more than five months before the city's housing staff places a new tenant.

Some 250 units are going unused, costing the city as much as $600,000 a year in lost revenue - revenue that would fund the very operations needed to fill the units more quickly.
The reason, housing officials say, is a staff shortage brought about by budget cuts at the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Two years ago, Phoenix laid off 30 percent of its Housing Department staff. Today, the city lacks the resources to quickly refurbish apartments after they're vacated, officials say, or to process applications in a reasonable amount of time.

Funding shortfalls have required painful cuts across the nation, with housing authorities laying off staff members by the hundreds. But in other cities, vacancy rates remain far lower.

Phoenix maintains 2,473 federally subsidized apartments and homes, and the average unit sits empty for more than 23 weeks. Despite facing similar budget pressures, cities such as Dallas and San Antonio move new tenants into vacated units in as little as three weeks.

Concerned about the department's performance, some Phoenix City Council members are discussing dismantling the Housing Department, either privatizing it or folding it into another city department. More HERE