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When is a Section 8 tenant considered “Moved out”?

Clarification of HUD Approved Training Expenses

New TRACS 202D Release & Implementation Schedule

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New HUD Protected Class Rule

The ADA Guidelines Requiring Pool Lifts in HUD Subsidized Property

Does Your Tenant Selection Plan Go Far Enough

Unit Inspections for Section 8 Housing

MOR’s May Be Suspended, But Let’s Pretend They Weren’t!

How to Deal with Extended Absence or Abandonment in Section 8

Just Announced — HUD Releases 2012 Income Limits

Carbon Monoxide Detector Mandates

AHTCS, LLC provides HUD Section 8 file audit and file reviews

October TRACS Industry Working Group Meeting

Best practices for affordable housing Section 8 Owner/Agents that work!

Implementing an Integrated Pest Management Strategy for Affordable Housing Properties

Revised EIV Notice 2011-21 Issued – August 19, 2011

Save Money, Save the Environment going “Green” at your Affordable Housing Property

There are no Vacancies for Sexual Predators in Affordable Housing

Landlord Refuses to Rent to a Woman with Children

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The ADA Guidelines Requiring Pool Lifts in HUD Subsidized Property

I had a client email me to ask if he was required by the ADA compliance to install a pool lift;

“One of our properties is in the process of building a pool which will open in May. It is a Tax Credit property. Do we have to install a lift chair due to the [...]

Does Your Tenant Selection Plan Go Far Enough

When a tenant requires services that you don’t offer, does the tenant then need to consider assisted living rather than independent living? Does your Tenant Selection Plan (TSP) address whether your community is an independent living facility versus an assisted living community?

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There are no Vacancies for Sexual Predators in Affordable Housing

There is no doubt about it, I am a “News Hound”. I watch the news all of the time. One of the most gripping headlines always includes how a woman or a child was assaulted by a sexual predator. MSNBC has even created a long going documentary called “To Catch a Predator”.

I have [...]

Landlord Refuses to Rent to a Woman with Children

I recently read the most appalling article where HUD brought charges to the owner of a five-unit apartment building in Lebanon, NH, for violating the Fair Housing Act because the landlord allegedly refused to rent one of the units to a family with children. HUD is pursuing these charges on behalf of a mother with [...]

HUD Proposes New Rule To Ensure Equal Access To Housing Regardless Of Sexual Orientation Or Gender Identity

HUD recently published regulations intended to ensure that it’s housing programs are open to all eligible persons, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. I think that it is important to note that we don’t see this as any political debate but rather an issue of fairness. Discrimination is never okay. What ever our views [...]

HUD Notice H10-21 “Optional Smoke-Free Housing Policy Implementation.”

Since I have had recent inquiries abut this policy it spurred me to think how such a policy could affect the multifamily affordable housing owner. The HUD issued Notice H10-21 “Optional Smoke-Free Housing Policy Implementation” encourages owners and management agents to implement smoke-free housing policies in some or all of the properties they own or [...]