2019 Notices, Rules and Regulations

Overview

Below is a list of PIH notices which provide guidance, extensions, instructions, clarifications, announcements and other policy information. The notices are also available on HUDclips.

Note: HUD announces the end to hard copy mailing of PIH Notices. Notices will be available electronically only and posted on this website.

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See Also: Current Year Notices

2019 Notices

Notices Issued/Expires Subject/Purpose
PIH-2019-26 Issued Dec 16, 2019
Expires: Effective until amended, superseded or rescinded
Rescission of prior notice on use of work preferences in public housing - This notice rescinds Notice PIH 2011-33, Use of Work Preferences as a Public Housing Waiting List Management Tool and as a Lease Provision for Certain Public Housing Buildings.
PIH 2019-25 Issued Oct. 11, 2019
Expires: This notice remains effective until amended, superseded or rescinded
Public and Indian Housing (PIH) Public Housing Program Policy on Emergency Call Systems - The purpose of this notice is to issue guidance on applicable PIH policies related to emergency call systems in public housing properties. 
PIH 2019-24 Issued Sept. 3, 2019
Expires: This notice remains effective until amended, superseded or rescinded
Guidance on the Rate Reduction Incentive in Public Housing - This notice serves as guidance to Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) on the use and eligibility of the Rate Reduction Incentive (RRI).  
Notice H-2019-09
PIH-2019- 23 (HA)

Issued: Sept. 5, 2019
Supersedes: Notice PIH-2012-32 (HA) H-2017-03, REV-3 and Notice PIH 2018-11 (HA) H 2018-05 and Notice PIH 2018-22 H 2018-11
Expires: This notice remains in effect until amended, superseded or rescinded.

Rental Assistance Demonstration – Final Implementation, Revision 4 - This revised notice (Notice) provides program instructions for the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD or Demonstration), including eligibility and selection criteria.
PIH 2019-22 Issued: Aug 19, 2019
Expires: This notice supersedes Notice PIH 2016-03. This notice remains in effect until amended, superseded or rescinded.

Emergency Safety and Security Grants Annual Funding Notification and Application Process - This notice provides guidance to public housing agencies (PHAs) seeking Emergency Capital Needs funding for safety and security measures and provides instructions regarding the application and funding process for emergency safety and security funding only.

PIH-2019-21 (HA)

Issued: Aug 2, 2019
Expires: This notice remains effective until amended, superseded or rescinded

Guidance on Reporting Public Housing Agency Executive Compensation Information for Calendar Year 2018 - This notice provides information and guidance on how public housing agencies (PHAs) are to use the HUD-52725 form to report executive compensation for calendar year 2018 (CY2018).

PIH 2019-20 (HA) Issued: July 26, 2019
Expires: This notice remains effective until amended, superseded or rescinded
Tenant Protection Vouchers for Foster Youth to Independence Initiative - Through the Foster Youth to Independence (FYI) initiative HUD will provide Tenant Protection Vouchers (TPVs) for youth eligible under the Family Unification Program (FUP), subject to availability.

PIH 2019-19

Issued: July 18, 2019
Expires: This notice remains effective until amended, superseded or rescinded

Total Development Costs (TDC) for Affordable Housing under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA) - This Notice supersedes Notice PIH 2010-47, same subject, dated November 19, 2010, and all the Notices extending that Notice, up to and including PIH-Notice 2016-07, dated May 4, 2016. This Notice transmits the updated schedule for the maximum amount of funds that may be used for affordable housing under NAHASDA based on Marshall Valuation Service, Marshall & Swift/Boeckh, LLC and RSMeans Residential Cost Data for 2019.

PIH 2019-18

Issued: July 18, 2019
Expires: This notice remains effective until amended, superseded or rescinded

Procedural Guidance for Tribal HUD-VA Supportive Housing Renewal Grant Applications - This Tribal HUD-VA Supportive Housing (Tribal HUD-VASH) Notice announces renewal requirements and procedural guidance for existing recipients of the program.

PIH 2019-17

Issued: July 10, 2019
Expires: This notice remains effective until amended, superseded or rescinded
Revised Section 184 Indian Housing Loan Guarantee Program 2018 Loan Limits - The purpose of this notice is to update the 2018 mortgage loan limits (PIH Notice 2018-14) for the Section 184 Indian Housing Loan Guarantee program (Section 184) to include four counties in Arkansas recently approved as expanded Section 184 lending areas.
PIH 2019-16 Issued: July 10, 2019
Expires: This notice remains effective until amended, superseded or rescinded
Administrative Requirements for Investing Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) Funds - This notice describes the requirements for investing Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) funds and establishes the basis upon which the Department will determine if a recipient of IHBG funds has the administrative capacity to draw down IHBG funds for investment purposes as authorized under Section 204(b) of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act (NAHASDA).  
PIH 2019-15 (HA) Issued: July 5, 2019
Expires: This notice remains effective until amended, superseded or rescinded

Registration of Interest for HUD-VASH Vouchers - This notice announces the availability of $40 million in HUD-VASH that will support approximately 5,000 new vouchers. These vouchers are administered in partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and enable homeless veterans and their families to access affordable housing and supportive services.

PIH 2019-14 (HA) Issued: June 19, 2019
Expires: This notice supersedes and replaces Notice PIH 2010-44 (HA), as extended by Notice PIH 2011-61. This notice remains in effect until amended, superseded or rescinded

Declaration of Trust or Declaration of Restrictive Covenants (DOT/DORC) Requirements - The Declaration of Trust and Declaration of Restrictive Covenants (DOT/DORC) are legal instruments granting HUD an interest in public housing property. They provide public notice that the public housing property must be operated in accordance with all federal public housing requirements, including the requirement not to convey or otherwise encumber the public housing property unless expressly authorized by federal law and/or HUD.

PIH 2019-13 (HA) Issued: May 24, 2019
Expires: This notice remains effective until amended, superseded or rescinded
Public Housing ACC Termination and PHA closeout - This notice outlines requirements public housing agencies (PHAs) must complete when proposing to remove their remaining public housing units from the public housing program and requirements related to the termination of the public housing Annual Contribution Contract (ACC).
PIH 2019-12 (HA) Issued: May 23, 2019
Expires: This notice remains effective until amended, superseded or rescinded

Enhanced Voucher Minimum Rent Calculation for Families Whose Incomes     Subsequently Increase After Having Experienced a Significant Decrease in Income - This notice revises the calculation for the enhanced voucher minimum rent for certain families whose incomes increase after the family experienced a significant decrease in income.

PIH 2019-11 (HA) Issued: May 3, 2019
Expires: This notice remains effective until amended, superseded or rescinded

Final Implementation of Public Housing Over-Income Limit under the Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act of 2016 (HOTMA) - The purpose of this notice is to provide supplemental information on the implementation process for public housing income limits brought about by HOTMA and detailed in Federal Register Notice (83 F.R. 35490) published July 26, 2018 (2018 FR Notice).

PIH-2019-10 (HA) Issued: April 30, 2019
Expires: This notice remains effective until amended, superseded or rescinded

Required Conversions - This notice provides guidance on the requirement that PHAs annually review their inventories to determine whether any of their public housing developments (or parts of developments) meet the criteria for required conversion from public housing. This notice also provides guidance on developing a required conversion plan in such instances.

PIH-2019-09/H-2019-06 Issued: April 26, 2019
Expires: This notice remains effective until amended, superseded or rescinded

Treatment of ABLE Accounts to HUD-Assisted Programs - This Notice provides guidance regarding the federally mandated exclusion of ABLE accounts from the calculation of income and assets, as required under the Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2014 (ABLE Act). Per the mandate of the ABLE Act, for the purpose of determining eligibility and continued occupancy, HUD will disregard amounts in the designated beneficiary’s/individual’s ABLE account.

PIH 2019-08 Issued: April 18, 2019
Expires: This notice remains effective until amended, superseded or rescinded

Implementation of Federal FY19 Funding Provisions for the Housing Choice Voucher - This Notice implements the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program funding provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (P.L. 116-6), referred to hereafter as “the 2019 Act,” enacted on February 15, 2019. The 2019 Act establishes the allocation methodology for calculating housing assistance payments (HAP) renewal funds, new incremental vouchers and administrative fees.

PIH 2019-07

Issued: April 17, 2019
Expires: This notice remains effective until amended, superseded, or rescinded

Determining and Using Program Income Under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4101 et seq.) (NAHASDA) - This notice replaces PIH Notice 2000-18 and provides guidance for determining and using program income generated by the use or disbursement of Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) funds.

PIH 2019-06 Issued: April 18, 2019
Expires: This notice remains effective until amended, superseded or rescinded

Carbon Monoxide Detectors in HUD-Assisted Housing - This notice is being issued as part of the Secretary’s efforts to support decent, safe and sanitary housing in HUD’s low income housing assistance programs. CO poisoning is a serious issue in housing across the nation.

PIH 2019-05 (HA) Issued: Mar. 21, 2019
Expires: This Notice remains effective until Amended, Superseded or Rescinded
Streamlined Voluntary Conversions of Last Remaining Projects of Small Public Housing Agencies - Section 22 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, (42 U.S.C. 1437t) (the 1937 Act) and its implementing regulations at 24 CFR part 972, subpart B, authorize Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) to convert public housing to tenant-based assistance. HUD is authorized under Section 22(b)(3) to waive the conversion assessment or require a streamlined conversion assessment for “any public housing project or class of public housing projects.”
PIH 2019-04 Issued: Mar. 14, 2019
Expires: This Notice remains effective until Amended, Superseded or Rescinded

Request for Letters of Interest under the Moving to Work Demonstration Program for Fiscal Year 2019: COHORT #2 – Rent Reform - This Notice offers eligible public housing agencies (PHAs) the opportunity to express interest in admission to the Moving to Work (MTW) Demonstration Program.   

PIH 2019–03

Issued: Mar. 14, 2019
Expires: This Notice remains effective until Amended, Superseded or Rescinded

EXTENSION to Submit Letters of Interest and Applications under the Moving to Work Demonstration Program for Fiscal Year 2019: COHORT #1 – Overall Impact of Moving to Work Flexibility - The initial cohort will study MTW Flexibility and will be comprised of approximately 30 PHAs that are high performers and administer 1,000 or fewer aggregate authorized combined Housing Choice Vouchers and public housing units. This notice announces that HUD is extending the deadline to apply for admission to the MTW demonstration program from the previous due date of January 11, 2019 to the new due date of May 13, 2019.
PIH-2019-02 (HA)
H-2019-04
Issued: Feb. 22, 2019
Expires: This Notice remains effective until Amended, Superseded or Rescinded
Standardization of REAC Inspection Notification Timelines - To announce a standardized notification period for HUD-assisted properties subject to Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) Uniform Physical Condition Standards (UPCS) inspections.
PIH 2019–01

Issued: Feb. 15, 2019
Expires: This notice supersedes and replaces Notice PIH 2018-2. This Notice remains effective until Amended, Superseded or Rescinded

Funding Availability for Set-Aside Tenant Protection Vouchers - This notice supersedes and replaces Notice PIH 2018-02. HUD is making up to $5,000,000 available for Tenant Protection Vouchers (TPVs) for certain at-risk households in low-vacancy areas from Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 Appropriations. 

 


 

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