Our services
PHA Consulting & RAD
Advisory for public housing authorities — inspection programs, RAD conversion, procurement readiness, and the operating shift that follows.
Working with agencies
Public agencies operate under different pressure.
A public housing authority answers to residents, to a board, to HUD and to a procurement regime, often with fewer staff than the portfolio warrants. The compliance obligations are as heavy as any private owner's and the latitude is narrower.
Castor works with PHAs as a contractor and as an advisor. Our co-founders have run HUD-assisted portfolios for sixteen years, and the operational questions an authority faces — how to keep inspections moving, how to evidence a determination, how to structure a reporting procedure that holds up — are questions we have answered from inside the work.
Where we help
What agencies bring us.
Inspection Programs
- HCV NSPIRE inspection delivery
- Reporting procedures built for agency use
- Inspector consistency and paired-inspection review
- Owner and tenant notification workflows
- Correction tracking and verification
RAD Conversion
- Readiness assessment ahead of conversion
- Resident notification and relocation planning support
- Transition from public housing to project-based operation
- Rebuilding occupancy and certification processes post-conversion
- Staff training on the incoming rule set
Procurement & Contracting
- Vendor registration and credentialing
- Solicitation response support
- Section 3 and MWBE obligations within procurement
- Contract compliance monitoring
Operations & Capacity
- File and certification quality review
- Policy and procedure drafting
- Staff training and interim capacity
- Systems and reporting build-out
RAD in particular
Conversion is the easy half.
Before
Physical needs, resident engagement, and an honest read on whether the operating assumptions behind the conversion will hold once it closes.
During
Notification, relocation where required, and keeping the existing compliance obligations satisfied while the transaction proceeds.
After
The part that gets underestimated: staff who ran public housing rules for years now working project-based ones, with new systems and new deadlines.
Have a site that needs attention?
Tell us the property and the problem. We will tell you what it takes to fix it.