HUD Extends Section 202, Service Coordinator and ALCP Public Comment Period

On Oct. 11, the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) posted in the Federal Register an extension to seeking public comment on changes to the Supportive Housing and Services for the Elderly (Section 202) and Persons With Disabilities (Section 811) programs to Jan.15, 2015. The notice can be found here.

As posted earlier in Intelligence, HUD is seeking comments on several changes including:

establishing the requirements and procedures for the use of new project rental assistance for supportive housing for persons with disabilities;
the implementation of an enhanced project rental assistance contract;
allowance of a set-aside for a number of units for elderly individuals with functional limitations or other category of elderly persons as defined in the Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA);
making significant changes for the prepayment of certain loans for supportive housing for the elderly;
implementing a new form of rental assistance called Senior Preservation Rental Assistance Contracts (SPRACs);
modernizing the capital advance for supportive housing for persons with disabilities; and
providing grant assistance for applicants without sufficient capital to prepare a site for a funding competition.

This rule also proposes to establish the regulations for the Service Coordinators in Multifamily Housing program and the Assisted Living Conversion Program (ALCP). Neither the Service Coordinator nor the ALCP has ever been overseen by HUD through regulation. Program guidance has been provided over time for these programs through other policy documents such as Notices of Funding Availability, handbooks, program notices and memoranda. The proposed rule has a lengthy prefatory section, explaining the purpose and intent of the proposed policies. The actual proposed rule for the Service Coordinators in Multifamily Housing and Assisted Living Conversion Program begins on page 60627.

LeadingAge NY will work with our Housing Cabinet and other members to review the proposed rules for the Section 202, ALCP and service coordinator programs and make suggestions to HUD for the final regulations.

Comments may be submitted electronically to HUD through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at www.regulations.gov. Please copy your comments to Ken Harris at kharris@leadingageny.org.

Contact: Ken Harris, kharris@leadingageny.org, 518-867-8835