
Federal Housing Administration Commissioner, Carol Galante, Announces Resignation
On August 11, 2014, Federal Housing Administration Commissioner Carol Galante announced her decision to resign from her post with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as the Assistant ...

Alpine Companies Assumes Role of Third Party Service Provider in Fort Worth and Kansas City Hub
In April 2013, HUD announced an initiative that included plans for major restructuring of the Multifamily Housing Division. Wave 1 (of 5) of this initiative is now well underway in the Ft. Worth and K ...

Do You Know Your Property’s DUNS Number and TIN?
TRACS 202D is here! Managers should be making plans to convert to TRACS 202D before January 31, 2015. In order for a Section 8, Rent Supp, RAP, or PRAC property to create new 202D tenant certification ...

Court Denies HUD’s Appeal in PBCA Litigation
Today, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied HUD’s request for a rehearing and rehearing en banc in the ongoing PBCA lawsuit.

REAC Inspectors Now Have Photographic Capabilities
In June and July of this year, a small group of REAC Inspectors began testing photographic capabilities of the UPSC 4.0 Inspection software used to conduct REAC Inspections. In August 2014, those insp ...

TRACS 202.D Is Here
The much anticipated implementation of TRACS 202.D is here. The conversion to TRACS 202.D kicked off on August 1, 2014 and will run to January 31, 2015.

PMCS Wants To Hear From You
2014 is flying by at a record pace. In the last year, managers have been tasked with modifying written policies and adjusting their daily procedures to comply with Change 4 of the HUD Handbook 4350.3, ...

Tenant Complaints
On June 13, 2014 HUD issued a memo revising Notice H 2012-21 (Implementation of Tenant Participation Requirements). The part that changed was Section F, detailing the appeal procedure for tenants or t ...

Employment Verification
Question: I am sending out employment verification, child care verification and medical expense verification forms for a tenant’s upcoming recertification. Do I have to send the HUD Form 9887A with ea ...

New England Tornado
On July 28, 2014, the New England Multifamily Hub requested our assistance in relaying the following message to Massachusetts owners and agents: This morning a tornado touched down in Revere, MA. If y ...