Some federal funding restored for Albany Housing Authority

Public housing authorities — including Albany Housing Authority where the professional employees are represented by PEF — learned through the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) they could lose 33 percent of their federal funding because of rule changes resulting from the Bush administration’s continuing move to project-based management and accounting.

PEF and the Albany Housing Authority discussed the threat and wrote to New York’s elected representatives on Capitol Hill and HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson urging HUD to honor the agreement reached with housing authorities, and stop the proposed rule change that could cost New York approximately $200 million a year in federal housing funds, twice the cut originally proposed.

PEF and the Albany Housing Authority jointly lobbied Congressman Mike McNulty (D-21). As a result of these efforts, the entire New York congressional delegation along with Senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer joined in signing a critical letter to Jackson, urging HUD to restore the funding to New York.

So far, it appears about 5 percent of the funding for the Albany Housing Authority is being restored, which means it will have about 94 percent of the money it had for 2005, instead of just 89 percent.
— John Murphy and Sherry Halbrook

The Communicator May 2007

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