Policy Alerts
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DGCD POLICY ALERTS
Policy Alerts on 3/20/2022
The Atlanta City Council will hold a Public Hearing on Monday, April 18 2022, at 1:00 pm on Resolution 22-R-3253, an amendment to the 2018 Annual Action Plan for the purpose of reprogramming activities from the 2019 Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) funding to the 2018 HOPWA funding and drawing down the balance of the 2018 HOPWA funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
HOPWA Public Notice to Reprogram HOPWA 2018 and 2019 Final
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New FSRS Training Available
The recording of the FFATA Sub-award Reporting System (FSRS) training session held in August 2021 is now available to view. This training is relevant for all CPD grantees (including HOPWA grantees), and covers the Federal Funding and Transparency Act (FFATA) reporting requirements for grantees, and how to use the FSRS system for FFATA reporting. Grantees that receive federal awards equal to or greater than $30,000 are required to report their FFATA data into FSRS by the end of the month following the month that the award was given.
The link to the training video and more information can be found on the FSRS landing page on HUD.gov here: Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 Reporting Requirements | HUD.gov / U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
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Policy Alerts on 6/30/2021
On June 30, 2021, HUD issued a memorandum explaining the availability of waivers of certain regulatory requirements associated with several Community Planning and Development (CPD) grant programs to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and to facilitate assistance to eligible communities and households economically impacted by COVID-19. This memorandum covers program-specific waivers for the following CPD programs, including for grants that have not yet been awarded (e.g., funds awarded under the FY 2021 Appropriations Act):
- Continuum of Care (CoC)
- Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP)
- Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA)
This memorandum also announces a simplified notification process for recipients of these programs to use this waiver flexibility to expedite the delivery of assistance. To use the waiver flexibility provided in this memorandum, the recipient must provide notification in writing, either through mail or e-mail, to the CPD Director of the HUD Field Office serving its jurisdiction no less than two days before the recipient anticipates using the waiver flexibility. Directions on notifying HUD can be found in Attachment #1 to the memorandum.
Read the CPD Memo: Availability of Additional Waivers for Community Planning and Development (CPD) Grant Programs to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 and Mitigate Economic Impacts Caused by COVID-19.
Visit the CPD COVID-19 Grantee Guidance page for a full list of resources related to COVID-19 infectious disease prevention and response for CPD programs.
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Policy Alerts on 8/16/2020
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released the attached Federal Register for the Preserving Community and Neighborhood Choice information that was announced on August 4th. The document states that the effective date is now September 8, 2020.
As a reminder, Subrecipients should maintain all policy alerts in a binder/folder so when monitoring occurs with the Agency, staff my verify that a Policy Library exist.
Policy Alerts on 8/16/2020
On July 23, 2020, the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson today announced https://www.hud.gov/press/press_releases_media_advisories/HUD_No_20_109 that the Department will ultimately terminate the Obama Administration’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulation issued in 2015. Ben Carson has indicated that the Trump Administration has established programs like Opportunity Zones that drive billions of dollars of capital into underserved communities where affordable housing exists, but opportunity does not. Programs like this allow communities to focus more of their time working with Opportunity Zone partners to revitalize their communities so upward mobility, improved housing, and home ownership is within reach for more people.
In addition, there is a brand-new rule, called Preserving Community and Neighborhood Choice located at https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/ENF/documents/6228-F-01%20Preserving%20Housing%20and %20Neighborhood%20Choice.pdf that defines fair housing broadly to mean housing that, among other attributes, is affordable, safe, decent, free of unlawful discrimination, and accessible under civil rights laws. It then defines “affirmatively furthering fair housing” to mean any action rationally related to promoting any of the above attributes of fair housing.
Persons who believe they have experienced housing discrimination may continue to file a complaint of discrimination using the following:
Metro Fair Housing Services
215 Lakewood Way, S.W., Suite 106
Atlanta, Georgia 30315
Local: (404) 524-0000 / Fax: (404) 524-0005
http://metrofairhousing.com/
HUD's Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
(800) 669-9777 or visiting How to File a Complaint
Materials and assistance are available for persons with limited English proficiency. Individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing may contact HUD using the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.
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Policy Alerts on 8/09/2020
HIV.gov has announced that the HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) has issued a new funding opportunity announcement for demonstration projects that will evaluate if modifications to existing evidence-informed interventions for selected health issues will significantly improve health outcomes for racial and ethnic minority and disadvantaged populations. HIV is included in the list of prioritized health issues that these projects can address.
The funding opportunity is a State/Tribal/Territorial Partnership Initiative to Document and Sustain Disparity-Reducing Interventions (MP-CPI-20-001).
Announcement Number: MP-CPI-20-001
Opportunity Title: State/Tribal/Territorial Partnership Initiative to Document and Sustain Disparity-Reducing Interventions
Award Ceiling: $300,000
Award Floor: $250,000
Estimated Total: $6,500,000
Application Due Date: August 26, 2020, 6:00 PM ET
Policy Alert HIV gov update New OMH Funding Opportunity 081020
Policy Alerts on 8/04/2020
COVID-19 SURVEY
We are still accepting submissions for our COVID-19 Impact on Properties Survey Policy Alert 2020 COVID impact survey. Your submission will allow CDBG to accurately assess how COVID-19 has impacted the affordable housing community for the City portfolio of properties still under the affordability period. On July 30, 2020, the City of Atlanta's Department of Grants and Community Development (DGCD) announced that the department was soliciting feedback on the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) from our federally funded properties under the affordability period.
With the increasing number of COVID-19 cases reported daily across the Metro Atlanta Area, the attached impact survey will assist the department in gauging the need that exists. Given the social and financial challenges resulting from COVID-19, DGCD is a part of a dynamic situation with many unknowns.
Answer the survey questions, based on your level of comfort and timetable. The survey should take 30 minutes. Your responses will help determine actions and policies that DGCD may implement to help address COVID-19 needs. We welcome and ask for your voice as a part of the collective process.
Provide your perspective. Your time and talents are appreciated. Thank you.
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Policy Alerts on 07/30/2020
HIV.Gov has announced the upcoming PACHA council meeting in August 8, 2020. This alert is addressed to all interested staff and their assigned providers who are handling this target population. Please review this alert, verify with your manager if you may participate and send to your Providers. As a reminder, please copy on your correspondence to your providers/SR's of the alerts so I can adequately address HUD bi-weekly to indicate that the alerts went out.
July 30th alert PACHA-Agenda-August-2020
Policy Alert July 30th HIV gov update PACHA Aug 8 2020 meeting
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Policy Alerts on 07/15/2020
HIV.gov has announced some tips for clients with AIDS and related diseases. This website was last updated on July 9, 2020. This information may be located here: https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/staying-in-hiv-care/other-related-health-issues/coronavirus-covid-19.
Policy Alert HIV gov update COVID 19 and People with HIV 071520
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Policy Alerts on 07/01/2020
On June 29, 2020 the National low income housing coalition announced in the Volume 25, Issue 26 that new guidance published for Housing Providers on protecting Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Domestic Violence during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Policy Alert VAWA provider guidance 070120
HIV.gov has announced an upcoming satellite session, Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America: A Conversation on Monday, July 6th at 3:00pm ET. The session will be a conversation between government and community leaders involved with implementing EHE.
Policy Alert HIV gov update EHE A Plan for America A Conversation 070120
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Policy Alerts on 06/29/2020
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced the 2020 Community Planning and Development (CPD) Fair Market Rents (FMRs) Limits.
Copy of FY-2020-HOME-HTF-Homeownership-Value-Limits
Policy Alert HOME Homeownership Value eff 040120
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published limits issued for the HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) and Housing Trust Fund (HTF) Homeownership Value Limits ("95% limits") for 2020. The effective date of the 2020 Homeownership Value Limits is April 1, 2020 for both Dekalb and Fulton Counties. These limits remain in effect until HUD issues new limits.
On June 12, 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau announced the new schedule for counting people experiencing homelessness in the 2020 Census. The operation was originally scheduled for March 30, March 31 and April 1, 2020 but health and safety concerns with COVID-19 forced them to delay these activities. Please be ready to meet with these persons. The Census Bureau is developing protocols and gathering resources, including personal protective equipment (PPE), to ensure that this count is conducted as safely as possible. The Census Bureau now plans to send specially trained census takers to count people at shelters, soup kitchens, regularly scheduled mobile food vans, and locations previously identified by the Census Bureau where people are known to sleep outdoors (like under bridges) and at all-night businesses (such as transit stations and 24-hour laundromats). People experiencing homelessness will be counted where they are staying when census takers visit between September 22-24, 2020.
Policy Alert 2020 Census Efforts to Count Homeless Release CB20 CN61
HIV.Gov has announced three upcoming events in early July 2020.
Subscribe to the HIV.gov blog and follow @HIVgov to hear them announce that registration is open and for information on other federal events at AIDS 2020 including live conference updates. Live with Leadership conversations will take place at the following times:
- Tuesday, July 7th at 2:00 pm ET – Dr. Jono Mermin, CDC
- Wednesday, July 8th at 11:00 am ET – Dr. Laura Cheever, HRSA
- Thursday, July 9th at 2:00 pm ET – Harold Phillips, OIDP
Policy Alert HIV gov Three upcoming Events June 29 2020
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provided guidance on June 23, 2020 that the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has published a two-month extension of its foreclosure and eviction moratorium through August 31, 2020 for homeowners with FHA-insured Single Family mortgages. Please download the Mortgage Letter (ML) 2020-19.
Policy Alert FHA extension foreclosure and eviction moratorium
FHA Mortgage Letter 2020 19 June 17 2020
FHA Mortgage Letter 2020 04 March 18 2020
Extension of foreclosure and eviction moratorium in connection with the Presidentially-Declared Covid-19 National Emergency. This ML announces a second extension of the foreclosure and eviction moratorium through August 31, 2020. This extension provides additional security and peace of mind to homeowners that they will not lose their homes while they are trying to recover financially.
This guidance is applicable to all FHA Title II single family forward mortgage programs and the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) reverse mortgage program, except for those secured by vacant and/or abandoned properties. This action further helps those individuals and families with FHA-insured homes who have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 national emergency.
HUD has announced that the FY 2020 Income Limits for the following programs:
- Brownfield Economic Development Initiative (BEDI)
- Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG)
- CDBG Disaster Recovery Assistance (CDBG-DR)
- HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME)
- Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA)
- Housing Trust Fund (HTF)
- Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP)
- Section 108 Loan Guarantee Program
- Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity (SHOP)
Policy Alert CPD programs Income Limits 2020 June 29 2020
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Policy Alerts on 6/19/2020:
These alerts are from the HIV.gov website related to an upcoming training and the National HIV testing day.
Policy Alert HIV gov update National HIV Testing 061920
HUD published notification related to a HUD IDIS system release on Friday, June 12, 2020. Please see the attached alert and read the IDIS updates. If you do not have IDIS access for the four HUD CPD formula grants, please complete the attached form for review of CDBG, HOPWA, ESG and HOME grants.
Policy Alert HUD IDIS June 15 2020
IDIS-Online-Access-Request-HUD-Form-27055
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Policy Alerts on 5/27/2020:
Rolling out DGCD's 2020 training module package is a framework of specific subject activities and instructional guide(s) from which the department's staff, the COA user agents, and the SR's including Project Sponsors, CHDO's, Non-Profits, Developers, Contractors, Housing Partners, and Key Stakeholders can learn information. The purpose is to enhance the practical experience, fill knowledge gaps and a way to document facts, concepts, processes, and principles while administering grants.
Policy Alert Training Notice 052720
DGCD Training registration form.pdf - Adobe Acrobat Pro
DGCD Subrecipient SR Training registration form
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Policy Alerts on 5/22/2020:
Georgia Department of Community Affairs has recently made a program announcement. See policy alert below.
Policy Alert Tax Credit 052220
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Policy Alerts on 4/2/2020:
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued the FY 2020 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA HUD Metro FMR Area FMRs for all bedroom sizes.
Policy Alert Fair Market Rents 2020
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced the 2020 income limits that determine eligibility for assisted housing programs including the Public Housing, Section 8 project-based, Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher, Section 202 Housing for the elderly, and Section 811 housing for persons with disabilities programs.
Notice of FY 2020 Income Limits Section 8 Programs 040120
HUD user Section8-IncomeLimits-FY20
Policy Alert Section 8 programs Income Limits 2020
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