The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) released a policy brief outlining its recommendations for federal and state guidelines for the national Housing Trust Fund (HTF). The HTF is a block grant to states targeted to help produce, rehabilitate, preserve, and operate rental housing for extremely low-income households. PRRAC’s policy brief discusses site selection rules, local approval requirements, affirmative marketing, tenant selection, and data transparency. Along with the policy brief, PRRAC created a 50-state table of HTF state policies, which describes the requirements, preferences, and strategies that each state has adopted for their use of HTF funding. Access the policy brief and 50-state table of HTF state policies at: https://bit.ly/34nNt1a
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