Latest News Out of Housing Counseling Slides · 8/10/2016 · •Updates by Office: Fiscal year...
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Latest News out of Office of Housing Counseling (OHC)
August 10, 2016
Facilitator & Panelists
• Facilitator: Sarah Gerecke, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Housing
• Panelists:
– Brian Siebenlist, Office Director, Office of Policy and Grant Administration
– Jerrold “Jerry” H. Mayer, Office Director, Office of Outreach and Capacity Building
– Kisha Wright, Deputy Office Director, Office of Oversight & Accountability
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Session Agenda
• Updates by Office: Fiscal year 2016 accomplishments and 2017 plans
– Office of Policy and Grant Administration
– Office of Outreach and Capacity Building
– Office of Oversight and Accountability
• Policy Update
• Q and A
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The Office of Policy and Grant Administration
Brian Siebenlist
Director
Total Households Served
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Housing Counselors Serve Millions of FamiliesCumulative Households Counseled Since April 1, 2009 (Millions)
Households counseled since April 1, 2009: 13.2 million
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Housing Counseling Service Trends
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Strategic Objective 1B: Credit AccessHUD’s Housing Counseling Program clients served
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Strategic Objective 1B: Credit AccessPercentage of housing counseling clients who gain access to resources to improve their housing situation
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Strategic Objective 1C: FHA’s Financial Health
Number of FHA insured mortgages benefitting from housing counseling
6.0% 5.7% 6.7% 7.7% 10.8% 9.9%0.7% 0.5% 0.5% 0.4%0.2% 0.2%
93.3%
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89.9%15,214
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HECM Loans(Counseling Required)
Back to Work Loans(Counseling Required)
Other Loans (VoluntaryCounseling)
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Fiscal Year 2016 Accomplishments
• FY 2016-2017 Comprehensive Housing Counseling NOFA
• Housing Counselor Certification Rule
• Housing Counseling notices on Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECM)
• Housing Counseling Program Handbook 7610.1 progress
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Fiscal Year 2017 Plans
• Housing Counseling regulations
• Housing Counseling Program Handbook
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The Office of Outreach and Capacity Building
Jerrold H. MayerDirector
Fiscal Year 2016 Accomplishments
• Housing Counseling Certification
• Housing Counseling Federal Advisory Committee
• Homeownership Month
• Training NOFA
• Counselor resources/training/toolkits
• Communication (Customer service [email protected] /Listserv/Bridge)
• Disaster Recovery Assistance Team (DART)
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Fiscal Year 2017 Plans
• Counselor Certification training and testing
• Outreach: Awareness and Visibility project, meetings and events
• Training to build capacity (e.g., Booth Management OMB Circular requirements, new toolkits)
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The Office of Accountability and Oversight
Kisha Wright
Deputy Office Director
Fiscal Year 2016 Accomplishments
• Financial audit training and technical assistance for agencies
• Internal training for consistency and streamlining of key oversight topics
– 9902
– Mentorship program
– Grant execution
• Compliment and Complaint Program
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Fiscal Year 2017 Plans
• Performance Reviews
– Streamline and automation of the process in order to reduce time and increase efficiency
– Risk analysis
• Possible program changes that reflect feedback received from our agency partners
• Program compliance toolkits
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Office of Housing Counseling Policy Update
Policy Update• Promote industry-wide use of the HUD-9911 Certificate
of Housing Counseling as evidence of housing counseling completion
• Incorporate housing counseling in the Uniform Residential Loan Application
• Encourage use of HUD-approved Housing Counseling Agencies in external programs
• Publish models of how state and local fees can be directed to housing counseling
• Toolkit regarding payment of housing counseling fees at mortgage closing
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Q and A
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