NAHMA HUD Update: HUD Provides New Faircloth-to-RAD Option for PHAs, Including Guidance and Upcoming Webinar (April 26, 2021)April 8, 2021 Dear NAHMA Members,
Below, please find an update from HUD’s Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD), via their RADBlast. This update includes the new Faircloth-to-RAD option available to public housing authorities to create new deeply affordable housing. Additionally, HUD has produced guidance PHAs and their partners can use to understand the process and make the appropriate submissions to HUD. To provide further clarity, HUD will also host a webinar on RAD to Faircloth conversions on Monday, April 26th at 3:00 PM EST. For more information on the Faircloth-to-RAD option, the guidance provided to PHAs and to register for the upcoming HUD webinar, please see the RADBlast! update below:
RADBlast! New Faircloth-to-RAD Option for PHAs to Create New Deeply Affordable HousingPublic Housing Authorities (PHAs) have a new pathway to leverage their existing public housing “Faircloth Authority” to create new deeply rent-assisted housing through the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD). Faircloth-to-RAD conversions will establish a long-term, reliable rental subsidy contract for the new housing units, which will help PHAs and their partners to more readily finance the development of the new properties. The Faircloth-to-RAD pathway represents an innovative solution to activate existing Federal authority to tap into up to 220,000 units of deeply affordable housing that PHAs could develop. In a Faircloth-to-RAD transaction, PHAs will develop public housing units using HUD’s public housing mixed-finance program with pre-approval to convert the property to a long-term Section 8 contract following construction. By providing early-stage RAD conversion approvals, specifically the revenue certainty and the market-familiarity of the Section 8 contract these RAD approvals represent, HUD will give lenders and investors the information they need to underwrite the construction of these projects. HUD has streamlined and merged the mixed-finance development and RAD conversion processes to eliminate duplicative steps and to maximize predictability. To help PHAs get started, HUD has produced guidance PHAs and their partners can use to understand the process and make the appropriate submissions to HUD. That guidance is located here. HUD will host a webinar on RAD to Faircloth conversions on Monday, April 26th at 3:00 PM EST. Please register here: -The RAD Team |
