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NLIHC Preservation Guide Now Available
(Category: HUD. Added/edited: Apr 26, 2010.)
Source: NLIHC Memo to Members, April 26, 2010
"NLIHC has published The Preservation Guide, Federal Housing and Homeless Plans: Potential Tools in the Affordable Housing Preservation Toolbox to help residents and advocates of affordable housing issues learn how to work locally to help save federally assisted and public housing units that would otherwise be demolished or converted to market-rate housing. The first part of the Guide provides the information needed to participate in a community’s required federal planning processes, to ensure that these local plans address the need to preserve federally subsidized and public housing. The second part of the Guide describes how to create and maintain a preservation database that can help track federally assisted housing in a community on an ongoing basis.
The three required plans discussed in part one of the Guide are the Consolidated Plan, the Public Housing Agency Plan, and the Qualified Allocation Plan (for Low Income Housing Tax Credits). The Guide also refers to the Continuum of Care Plan and Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness, which are completed by many communities. The Guide presents a sketch of these five plans, their required content, and the processes for creating the three plans mandated by law. The Guide also suggests where federally assisted affordable housing preservation language can be inserted in the plans, as well as when during the planning processes such language can be inserted and jurisdictions’ actions monitored.
The second part of the Guide spells out, step-by-step, how to create and maintain a database of subsidized multifamily rental housing that integrates all publicly available data into an easy-to-use preservation catalog, or preservation database. A preservation catalog is an essential tool for understanding which properties are available to low income households in a community, where they are located, and what factors threaten the affordability of each project. Creating and maintaining such a catalog is important for preserving assisted housing in a community, and supplements the planning process."
The Preservation Guide, Federal Housing and Homeless Plans: Potential Tools in the Affordable Housing Preservation Toolbox is available at http://www.nlihc.org/doc/Preservation-Guide2010.pdf.
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