HOTMA Update

HOTMA IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE UPDATES as of December 10, 2024:

Earlier this year, the Abilene Housing Authority updated its Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program's Administrative Plan and its Low Rent Public Housing (LRPH) Program's Admissions & Continued Occupancy Policy (ACOP) to incorporate HUD's new Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act of 2016 (HOTMA) rules.  As of January 1, 2025 these new HOTMA rules were supposed to become active for Public Housing Authorities (PHA's) across the country.  Accordingly, we posted on our website, the HCV HOTMA Administrative Plan and LRPH HOTMA ACOP that would go live on January 1, 2025.  Since this time, HUD has delayed the implementation of HOTMA for both the HCV and LRPH programs.

Please continue to watch our website for updates.  As HUD provides updates to PHA's on a new start date for HOTMA rules, the Abilene Housing Authority will update the public as well.

As of now, continuing on January 1, 2025 and forward, the current HCV 1st Administrative Plan and 1st ACOP will remain in effect as the governing rules for both programs.