Session Title & Brief Description
FINANCE
2026 PHA Financial Update
This session will provide detailed coverage and practical implementation guidance on the following recent changes:
- Public Housing Cash Management, PIH 2025-20, upcoming SF-425 Reporting and related tracking guidance and recommendations
- New Interest Income requirements for interest earned on Public Housing Operating Funds
- Upcoming Public Housing Assessment System (PHAS) changes per HUD’s regulatory agenda
- GASB Update to include GASB 103 resulting in very significant changes to the reporting model
- Detailed discussion concerning PIH 2025-14, resulting in significant accounting and financial management changes for PHAs
- HUD’s plans for COCC, to implement recommendations from OIG COCC report
- Strategies to increase revenue and reduce expenses in a tight budgetary environment
- eVMS – thorough walkthrough of this new module
- Recommendations to control HAP expenses to avoid shortfall
- HCV background, funding, and utilization including the Two-Year Tool
SMALL AGENCY TASK FORCE
HOTMA: An In-Depth Review of Programmatic Changes
Module 1: Understanding HOTMA’s Structure and Scope- Organizations, Implementation Timelines
Module 2: Eligibility & Admissions- New definition(s) for household members, Asset Limitations at Admission, Inspection Flexibilities
Module 3: Verifications- Safe Harbor, Self Certification, 9886A & 9887A
Module 4: Annual Income- New income definitions, Income Exclusions, Student Financial Aid, Asset Exclusions, New Asset Definitions, Calculating Asset Income
Module 5: Adjusted Income- Mandatory vs. Discretionary, Hardships & Permissive Deductions
Module 6: Interim Reexaminations- Mandatory & Discretionary use of EIV, Interim Increases/Decreases, Non-Interims, Processing Timeframes
Module 7: Annual Reexaminations- Asset Limitation After Admissions, Payment Standard Changes, PH Over Income Limits
Module 8: HOTMA Compliance & Governance- DeMinimis Errors, PHA Owned Housing, Housing Program Specific (PBV, LITCH, MF, HOPWA, FUP), Inflationary Adjustment Summary.Participant Guide Activities
MULTI-FAMILY/ASSET REPOSITIONING
RAD and Repositioning to Best Meet Your Mission
The tools to reposition your public housing properties have evolved dramatically over the last five years. Join HUD staff to learn more about how repositioning can help you physically and financially stabilize your properties, improve your residents’ quality of life, and meet your mission.
PUBLIC HOUSING
Beginners Guide to Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Development + Housing Authority Repositioning
This day-and-a-half session helps housing authority leadership explore HUD’s current repositioning options alongside the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC). Day 1 opens with the full repositioning toolbox — RAD, Section 18, blends, and mixed-finance — so participants know every option on the table, then moves into LIHTC fundamentals: how the credits work, the roles in a typical deal, and how a development budget comes together.
Day 2 completes LIHTC (compliance and investor exit) and closes with modeling exercises that pair each repositioning path with LIHTC to show what works, what doesn’t, and why.
COMMISSIONERS
AI in Housing – Full Day Hands on Session
Three hands-on working blocks, no tech background needed.
- AI for Beginners: Practical AI builds around real housing authority work.
- AI for Paperwork: HUD notices, policies, plans and compliance drafting.
- AI for Big Projects: Planning board packets, and communications plans.
Half-day, Hands-on working session in two blocks:
Managing Up, Managing Down and the Weight You Carry.
- Managing Up, Managing Down, leading a Board and a Team without carrying all of it yourself.
- Stress and Burnout for Housing Leaders and Staff. How to stop carrying the job home.