The average amount of rehab in RAD deals continues to go up, along with the percentage of deals pursuing blends. It's one of the few ways to leverage more funding to undertake deeper rehab.

ICYMI: HUD released updated guidance in December related to public housing properties pursuing a RAD conversion in conjunction with a Section 18 demolition/disposition action (known as a RAD/Section 18 blend). This is an under the radar move that will provide a boost to RAD-converting properties...

Loving the new redesign of state-level pages on @HUDgov. Each state landing page now follows the same hierarchy as the main site and love that the remaining sections are organized by user-center questions, e.g., I am at-risk of homelessness, what should I do?

Kingston, NY recently released an RFI for public development. We've been working with Kingston to set up a mixed-income public development program...

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And the hassle may well be worth it to guarantee affordable housing in higher opportunity, higher-cost markets, where voucher utilization rates are lower (see the chart from Freddie Mac's new report: mf.freddiemac.com/docs/equitab...)

It's still a hurdle to overcome the low funding that comes with Restore-Rebuild units, but augmenting funding with reserves will still be cheaper to non-MTW agencies than fully project-basing a tenant voucher...

December edition of @publicenterprise.bsky.social Capacity Factor: we've got merch, a new addition to the CPE team, a new collaborative report and exciting public development news out of Kingston, NY!

Read it here: us13.campaign-archive.com?u=7bdf7e4940...

I'm generally skeptical of hype abt AI/ML to fix social problems, but this is pretty cool: Detroit used machine learning software to more cheaply and reliably identify lead pipes and leverage ARPA $$ to speed up the timeline for replacing those lines.
www.acceleratorforamerica.org/news/machine...