Operating subsidy blues

NAHRO has issued a press release expressing outrage at a proposed new operating subsidy rule in the April 14 Federal Register. NAHRO says the proposal undoes considerable negotiation progress between "public housing stakeholders" and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), making subsidy formulas unrealistic and subsidy increases, if any, slower to take effect. But the rule's HUD-drafted preamble says "These regulatory changes reflect the recommendations made by the negotiated rulemaking committee, with some modifications...," and it says they take into account a specially commissioned Harvard study on the cost of running public housing. Comments can be submitted to HUD via www.regulations.gov -- or to your colleagues in the comments thread right here.