RRHA under no deadline to submit revised plans to HUD
Jeremy M. Lazarus | 12/27/2019, 6 a.m.
The rejected annual plan and five-year plan of the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority that lays out its vision for renovation or replacement of its nearly 4,000 public housing units is still in limbo.
According to RRHA spokeswoman Angela Fountain, “RRHA is in an ongoing conversation with HUD representatives” about the changes that would be needed, the timeframe by which those plans would need to be submitted “and the legal necessity of holding additional public hearings on the plans.”
“RRHA is currently under no prescribed deadline” to prepare and submit changes to the rejected plans, she stated.
Ms. Fountain also stated that RRHA “continues to maintain that the deficiencies HUD identified in RRHA’s agency plans fall in the category of being technical in nature, rather than substantive.”
She noted, “HUD has not made any legally binding determination on this issue.
“That being said,” she added that RRHA remains committed “to doing what is in the best interest of our families and the communities we serve. We will hold additional hearings if determined to be helpful to further our cooperative planning efforts.”
