[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 175 (Tuesday, September 14, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51180-51181]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-19765]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No.FR-6287-N-01]
Agenda and Notice of Public Meetings of the Moving to Work
Research Advisory Committee
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing
and Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and
Research, Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
ACTION: Notice of two federal advisory committee meetings.
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SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda for
two meetings of the Moving to Work (MTW) Research Advisory Committee
(Committee). The Committee meetings will be held via a virtual web-
based platform and an option for a call-in number on Thursday, October
14, 2021, and Thursday, October 28, 2021. The meetings are open to the
public and are accessible to individuals with disabilities.
DATES: The virtual meetings will be held on October 14, 2021, from 1:00
p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) and on October 28, 2021,
from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. EDT.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eva Fontheim, Office of Public and
Indian Housing, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th
Street SW, Room 4126, Washington, DC 20410, telephone (202) 402-3461
(this is not a toll-free number). Persons who have difficulty hearing
or speaking may access this number via TTY by calling the Federal Relay
Service at (800) 877-8339 (this is a toll-free number) or can email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of this meeting is provided in
accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App.
10(a)(2). The Committee was established on May 2, 2016, to advise HUD
on specific policy proposals and methods of research and evaluation
related to the expansion of the MTW demonstration to an additional 100
Public Housing Authorities (PHAs). See 81 FR 24630. The Committee met
several times since 2016 to discuss areas of policy focus for study
within the MTW expansion. Using the advice of the Committee, the one
hundred Expansion MTW PHAs will be added in four to five cohorts. To
date, 31 PHAs have been selected to participate in the MTW Flexibility
for Smaller PHAs Cohort, all consist of high-performing PHAs that
administer 1,000 or fewer Housing Choice Vouchers (HCV) and public
housing units combined. An additional 10 PHAs have been selected to
participate in the Stepped and Tiered Rent Cohort, consisting of PHAs
with 1,001 or more public housing and HCV units. In order to ensure
adequate sample size in the Stepped and Tiered Rent Cohort, the
selected PHAs were required to have 1,000 or more existing non-elderly,
non-disabled public housing and/or HCV households. This cohort will
study different rent models that may or may not be income-based, to
include tiered rents, and/or stepped-up rents. The Landlord Incentives
Cohort, application deadline is October 15, 2021, will study landlord
incentives in the housing choice voucher program.
HUD is committed to implementing the MTW Expansion in a way that is
responsive to the economic realities and current needs of low-income
families; therefore, the Work Requirements Cohort has been rescinded.
For this reason, HUD is reconvening the Committee to explore
alternative policies to study through the MTW Expansion to ensure that
there are 100 designated MTW PHAs. The minutes of all previous meetings
are available on the HUD website at: https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/ph/mtw/expansion/rac.
HUD will convene two virtual meetings to explore which policies to
study in future MTW cohorts.
The agenda for the meetings are as follows:
October 14, 2021--1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. EDT
I. Welcome and Introductions
II. Update on the MTW Expansion
III. Review of the Agenda
IV. Background and Status Update
a. Revisit Guiding Principles
b. Overall status of the Expansion
c. Small PHA Flexibility Cohort
d. Tiered and Stepped Rent Cohort
e. Landlord Incentives Cohort
f. Other Cohorts Previously Discussed
g. Questions
V. Goal for this Meeting: Discuss potential topics for remaining
cohorts
a. Framing
b. Overview of options
i. Asset Building
ii. Sponsor-Based Housing
iii. Project-Based Voucher Flexibilities
iv. MTW Flexibility (small/medium PHAs)
v. Discussion of other big idea program reforms HUD may want to
test
vi. Other ideas from Committee
VI. Open Discussion
VII. BREAK
VIII. Continued Open Discussion
IX. Public Input
X. Committee Debrief
XI. Prioritize and Rank
XII. Summary of Discussion
XIII. Discuss Next Steps and Adjourn
October 28, From 2:00-5:00 p.m. EDT
I. Welcome and Introductions
II. Revisit Guiding Principles
III. Review of October 14, 2021 Meeting
IV. Goal for this Meeting--Discuss and provide recommendations for two
new cohort studies (including research design and specific policies).
V. Discussion: Policy Topics Selected at October 14, 2021 Meeting
a. Key research questions
b. Considerations for structuring the Cohort
c. Considerations for evaluating the Cohort
V. BREAK
VI. Public Input
VII. Committee Debrief
VIII. Summary of Discussion
IX. Discuss Next Steps and Adjourn
Members of the public will have an opportunity to provide feedback
during
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the calls. The total amount of time for such feedback will be limited
to ensure pertinent Committee business is completed. Further, the
amount of time allotted to each individual commenter will be limited
and will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis by HUD. If the
number of commenters exceeds the available time, HUD may ask for the
submission of comments via email.
The public is invited to join the October 14th meeting by clicking:
https://ems8.intellor.com/login/840677. Follow the prompts to connect
audio by computer or telephone. If you are unable to join the web
conference, attendees may dial 1-888-251-2949; Access Code: 5190893#.
The public is invited to join the October 28th meeting by clicking
https://ems8.intellor.com/login/840685. Follow the prompts to connect
audio by computer or telephone. If you are unable to join the web
conference, attendees may dial 1-888-251-2949; Access Code: 1252894#.
Persons with hearing impairments may also follow the discussion by
first calling the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1-800-877-8339 and
providing the FRS operator with the Conference Call Toll-Free Number:
1-888-251-2949.
Records and documents discussed during the meetings, as well as
other information about the work of this Committee, will be available
for public viewing as they become available at: https://www.facadatabase.gov/FACA/FACAPublicPage by clicking on ``Agencies/
Committees'' at the top of the tool bar. These materials will also be
available on the MTW Demonstration's expansion web page at: https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/ph/mtw/expansion/rac.
Records generated from these meetings may also be inspected and
reproduced at the U.S. Department of Housing Development Headquarters
in Washington, DC as they are available and when HUD is able to, both
before and after the meetings.
Outside of the work of this Committee, information about HUD's
broader implementation of the MTW expansion, as well as additional
opportunities for public input, can be found on the MTW Demonstration's
expansion web page at: https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/ph/mtw/expansion.
Dominique Blom,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
Todd Richardson,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research.
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