{"id":31332,"date":"2025-12-02T15:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carh.org\/?p=31332"},"modified":"2025-12-02T15:13:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:13:20","slug":"secretary-publishes-letter-on-screening-criminal-responsibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carh.org\/secretary-publishes-letter-on-screening-criminal-responsibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Publishes Letter on Screening Criminal Responsibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On November 26, 2025, HUD&#8217;s Office of Multifamily Housing Programs sent out the following information:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today, the Office of Multifamily Housing Programs is announcing that the Secretary has published a letter on screening criminal responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has rescinded:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Notice 2015-19, \u201cGuidance for Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) and Owners of Federally-Assisted Housing on Excluding the Use of Arrest Records in Housing Decisions\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>2016 memo from HUD\u2019s Office of General Counsel on \u201cGuidance on Application of Fair Housing Act Standards to the Use of Criminal Records by Providers of Housing and Real Estate-Related Transactions\u201d; and<\/li>\n<li>2022 memo from HUD\u2019s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity on \u201cImplementation of the Office of General Counsel\u2019s Guidance on Application of Fair Housing Act Standards to the Use of Criminal Records by Providers of Housing and Real Estate-Related Transactions\u201d on background screening.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Please view the <a href=\"https:\/\/links-2.govdelivery.com\/CL0\/https:%2F%2Fcontent.govdelivery.com%2Fattachments%2FUSHUDFHA%2F2025%2F11%2F26%2Ffile_attachments%2F3474936%2FSOHUD%2520Letter%2520on%2520Criminal%2520Screening%2520Responsibilities%2520of%2520PHAs%2520and%2520Owners_final.pdf\/1\/0101019ac0fae58d-d45e6e88-2a6f-4e86-9de7-40eb068a060e-000000\/wN7gAYAnbngY2684Fc3qdx_wLW5WHhiL5yuyn2Q9XNY=433\">Screening Criminal Responsibilities Letter<\/a> for additional information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 26, 2025, HUD&#8217;s Office of Multifamily Housing Programs sent out the following information: &nbsp; Today, the Office of Multifamily Housing Programs is announcing that the Secretary has published a letter on screening criminal responsibilities. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has rescinded: Notice 2015-19, \u201cGuidance for Public Housing Agencies (PHAs)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1","description-off"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carh.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carh.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carh.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carh.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carh.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carh.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31333,"href":"https:\/\/www.carh.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31332\/revisions\/31333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carh.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carh.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carh.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}