PHAs must request $45m in extras by 1/31

Administrators at public housing authorities (PHAs), and anyone else who works with the Sec. 8 voucher program, take a good look at Public and Indian Housing Notice 2006-5. This is an implementing notice for the 2006 HUD Appropriations Act (AKA the TT/HUD bill) and, among other announcements (some of which also mention available money), it says $45 million in extra housing voucher subsidy funding is available to PHAs where either the baseline information used to set the PHA's 2006 allocation was artificially low, or its costs increased unexpectedly. Any PHA folks who want part of the money have to send in an attached form request, by overnight mail with signature on delivery, to one David Vargas in Washington by January 31, 2006, which is the Tuesday after next. Looks like they won't accept or consider any new evidence in the requests: they'll only re-analyze existing data.