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Introduction
The
Public Housing Program is one of HUD's largest
national affordable housing programs, serving about 1.2
million families in 14,000 public housing developments in
all 50 states, and administered over 3,000 Housing
Authorities and Agencies.
The
Public Housing Capital Fund and HOPE VI Programs are
currently budgeted at about $3 billion annually. About $1
billion for maintenance is funded through the Public
Housing Operating Fund. Other special Public Housing
Programs are accounted for separately. The nation's
existing accrued investment in Public Housing is over $90
billion. However, estimates of current outstanding Public
Housing Modernization and Maintenance needs exceed $20
billion.
The
goal of this Handbook is to simplify Public Housing
modernization and maintenance, and save time for the busy
Public Housing Administrator and Affordable Housing
Professional. This Handbook's 750-page Comprehensive
Index includes about 17,100 entries and 202,000
references, organizing access to the main sources of
regulatory and management control of Public Housing
Programs:
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Statutory and Federal Regulations, most notably in 24
CFR
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HUD Forms,
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HUD Handbooks and Guidebooks, and
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PIH Notices.
All of these sources of
regulation and management decisions are
indexed.
The primary regulations
from 24 CFR and 49 CFR (about 400 pages), are reprinted
in the front portion of this Handbook, a few pages after
this Introduction. The HUD Handbooks and Guidebooks
(about 2,280 pages), main HUD forms (about 350 pages),
and PIH Notices (about 520 pages), are available for free
from HUDCLIPS. All are completely indexed in this
Handbook - for a total of about 3,550 HUD pages with over
930,000 words indexed.
In this Comprehensive
Index, the total number of times a word or phrase appears
is on the first line of each index entry. Then the index
references are listed individually for each regulatory
source shown above.
The author welcomes
suggestions and input to improve this Handbook, and for
future Handbooks. For example, new words to add to the
index, additional or changed forms, new regulations, or
any other thoughts and suggestions the reader may
have.
If you would like
consultation or advice for your Section 8 or Public
Housing Program, or have other suggestions for improving
this index and handbook of HUD Public Housing Affordable
Housing, please contact the author (email
below).
Please send all
suggestions and comments to the author at the email
below
David Hoicka, New Orleans,
LA and Honolulu Hawaii.
[DavidHoicka@PublicHousing.info].
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