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

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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%

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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 housing.counseling@hud.gov /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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