Tools for the people who run the programs.
Reference material we built because we needed it ourselves, published for anyone administering rental assistance. Free, no sign-in, every claim carrying the citation behind it.
HOTMA applicability matrix
Which HOTMA provisions reach which HUD program.
Most of what the sector calls HOTMA lives in 24 CFR part 5, which was written for Section 8 and public housing. A CPD program is bound only where its own regulation cites it. Every cell here states what that program's own rule says, with the citation that supports it.
- 23 provisions across 10 HUD programs, 230 cells
- A citation in every cell, verified against primary sources
- Filter to the programs you run, or to where they differ
Free · No sign-in · Updated for CY2027 figures
Funders see outcomes
The work that produces them is mostly invisible.
Funders resource housing programs and measure outcomes. Between the two sits the work of running them — rent calculation, documentation, payment sequencing, landlord relationships, unit inventory. When that layer is fragmented across providers, the cost does not appear in a grant report. What appears is an underspent allocation and a placement count below projection.
- Why allocations age against deadlines nobody in the system controls
- What it costs when every provider executes rental assistance differently
- How communities are funding the coordination layer directly
Written for funders, and for the grantees describing program operations
Unlocked
What actually happened when a community centralized the work.
Seven communities, written from the implementation rather than the pitch: what they had before, what they changed, what it cost them to get there, and what moved afterwards. Named communities, named people, and figures they were willing to stand behind.
- NMCEH cut housing search time in Albuquerque from 90 days to 46
- RentSelect helped cut family homelessness in Montgomery County by 47%
- HOM, Inc. brought 2,500+ households onto one standard across Los Angeles
One-pagers
The short version, for the people who were not in the room.
Single-page overviews to send after a conversation or hand out at a convening. Each covers what the product does, who runs it, and what it changes operationally.
Rental assistance administration: eligibility, income examinations, payments, inspections.
Centralized landlord engagement and housing search across a provider network.
Field inspections on NSPIRE-V standards: severity classification, photo evidence, and reinspection scheduling.
Two systems, two roles: HMIS as the system of record, Journey as the system of action, and what flows between them.