Tuesday morning Katrina roundup
New Ginnie Mae announcement via HUD about "special procedures for security holders in disaster-affected areas," principally advising against mailing checks to addresses where the Postal Service is not delivering.... Another emergency declaration, this time for Virginia... The official Federal Register publication of the emergency Davis-Bacon Act suspension... Detroit offering housing units...
These updates are getting shorter day by day as the crisis stabilizes. But still no emergency-specific Sec. 8 vouchers far as we know...
[MORE: ...NMHC has further advice on renting to hurricane victims,
[[FURTHER NOTE LATE 9/13 -- On the NMHC page just cited, the advice about the SWERN/hurricanehousing.net situation, in the section dated 9/10 and marked "Tax Credit Properties: Special Considerations," may be out of date. Landlords with vacant units to list may want to look at this other NMHC page, which appears to be more recently updated, but please note it contains a contradiction on the same issue. First, the page gives a three-paragraph update with today's date (9/13) urging landlords who have registered units with the federal sites to also register them with hurricanehousing.net. We have not yet confirmed whether this is the most current information. Second, another paragraph appearing farther down on the page says the SWERN site "reports that all housing information has been moved to www.HurricaneHousing.net." This statement is definitely out of date. Although the SWERN site did display such a statement on Friday (9/9), the SWERN site had removed all references to hurricanehousing.net from its public site as of Saturday morning (9/10). NMHC's Katrina information has in general seemed excellent. We'll try and have more on this soon. For background on the SWERN situation see the links at the end of this post.]][[YET FURTHER NOTE LATE 9/13: During his "Ask the White House" chat this afternoon, Secretary Jackson suggested to a questioner offering a spare bedroom: "...I urge you go to www.hurricanehousing.net or www.usafreedomcorps.gov and register with the National Emergency Resource Center to find out what you can do to help the evacuees. ..." ]]
including some important nuts and bolts about FEMA registration and Individual Assistance awards (NB: these are two different things, so landlords should know that a person who has a registration number may not necessarily have been approved for aid.) And it links to Houston's interesting locally developed emergency voucher system... The HUD contracting opportunities site appears to have been expanded, though there's nothing explicitly disaster-related... still trying to get more precise word on what's being done with the listings of vacant units registered at SWERN...]
[LATER:... HAC has a report from the rural housing front of the recovery.]
These updates are getting shorter day by day as the crisis stabilizes. But still no emergency-specific Sec. 8 vouchers far as we know...
[MORE: ...NMHC has further advice on renting to hurricane victims,
[[FURTHER NOTE LATE 9/13 -- On the NMHC page just cited, the advice about the SWERN/hurricanehousing.net situation, in the section dated 9/10 and marked "Tax Credit Properties: Special Considerations," may be out of date. Landlords with vacant units to list may want to look at this other NMHC page, which appears to be more recently updated, but please note it contains a contradiction on the same issue. First, the page gives a three-paragraph update with today's date (9/13) urging landlords who have registered units with the federal sites to also register them with hurricanehousing.net. We have not yet confirmed whether this is the most current information. Second, another paragraph appearing farther down on the page says the SWERN site "reports that all housing information has been moved to www.HurricaneHousing.net." This statement is definitely out of date. Although the SWERN site did display such a statement on Friday (9/9), the SWERN site had removed all references to hurricanehousing.net from its public site as of Saturday morning (9/10). NMHC's Katrina information has in general seemed excellent. We'll try and have more on this soon. For background on the SWERN situation see the links at the end of this post.]][[YET FURTHER NOTE LATE 9/13: During his "Ask the White House" chat this afternoon, Secretary Jackson suggested to a questioner offering a spare bedroom: "...I urge you go to www.hurricanehousing.net or www.usafreedomcorps.gov and register with the National Emergency Resource Center to find out what you can do to help the evacuees. ..." ]]
including some important nuts and bolts about FEMA registration and Individual Assistance awards (NB: these are two different things, so landlords should know that a person who has a registration number may not necessarily have been approved for aid.) And it links to Houston's interesting locally developed emergency voucher system... The HUD contracting opportunities site appears to have been expanded, though there's nothing explicitly disaster-related... still trying to get more precise word on what's being done with the listings of vacant units registered at SWERN...]
[LATER:... HAC has a report from the rural housing front of the recovery.]
posted by Martha Bridegam at 7:26 AM
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