Affordable Housing Connections Updates
HOME 2023 Income and Rent Limits
The recently published 2023 HOME Program income and rent limits for the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI MSA and Counties in the Northeast MN HOME Consortium are effective on June 15, 2023. These and limits for other local and national jurisdictions are available on the HUD Exchange: 2023 HOME Income Limits 2023 HOME Rent Limits The 30% limits are provided for the HOME Program because the Consolidated Plan requires information on extremely low-income families. The 60% limits are provided because each PJ must invest HOME funds made available during a fiscal year so that not less than 90% of families receiving HOME...
The 2023 Monitoring Season has Begun
The due date for the Annual Owner’s Certification and its supporting documents (i.e., PY2022 CHARTs) has passed, and hopefully, you submitted everything on time. If so, thank you for your timely submission – we appreciate it! The Affordable Housing Connections (AHC) compliance team member who leads your management portfolio should have emailed you the list of your projects due for a site visit this year. As a reminder, all projects are subject to annual Desk Audit reviews, but only some projects will also have a site visit (file review and physical inspection). We have already mapped out our PY22 review...
April is National Fair Housing Month!
This year is the 55th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Federal Fair Housing Act; a monumental act passed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on April 11th, 1968. This law prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on protected classes, such as race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), familial status, and disability. Across America in 2021, 31,216 fair housing complaints were filed with the National Fair Housing Alliance. Fairly accessing housing is a challenge in many communities, as discrimination and racial...
CHART PY2022: Upload Instructions
CHART PY2022 is now in your Secure Management Folder Due Wednesday, February 15, 2023 Hello and Happy Holidays! This is to let you know that the CHART shells that you will use for PY2022 reporting are available in your secure management folder. Along with the CHART2022 shells, we uploaded a blank CHART Authorization, a blank Certification of Material Participation of Nonprofit, and an updated CHART User Guide. You will also find instructions for uploading your annual reporting documents and specific guidance for HTC12 and first year reporting. The annual Owner’s Certification of compliance with supporting PY2022 CHART, CHART Authorization, Certification...