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1) RD Multifamily Housing Handbook 2-3560 Chapter 6 Updates; 2) Realignment of Multifamily MIP to Further Rental Housing Development and Financing

CARH’S BROADCAST E-MAIL – Regulatory Alert June 27, 2025 1) Rural Development Multifamily Housing Handbook 2-3560 Chapter 6 Updates The Rural Housing Service (RHS) issued a Stakeholder Announcement on June 24th entitled, Rural Development Multifamily Housing Handbook 2-3560 Chapter 6 Updates. The Announcement states: “The Rural Housing Service (RHS) Office of the Multifamily Housing (MFH)…

HUD Publishes Federal Register Notice Documenting Waivers from RAD Supplemental Notice 4C

HUD has published FR-6503-N-01 Rental Assistance Demonstration: Supplemental Guidance on Revised RAD Notice in the Federal Register. The purpose of this Federal Register Notice is to document any new statutory or regulatory waivers included in RAD Supplemental Notice 4C- Housing 2025-01/PIH 2025-03, which can take effect 10 days following publication in the Federal Register. The…

HUD: New Tool to Support RAD/Section 18 Blends

HUD has published a new tool to assist Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) in assessing the impact of a RAD/Section 18 Blend on the revenue available to a property and then in implementing RAD/Section 18 Blends. The following updated resource is now available: RAD Rents: HUD has re-published the RAD Contract Rents that are used to determine…

CARH to Testify at House Committee Hearing on Rural Housing on June 12, 2025

CARH’S BROADCAST EMAIL – Legislative Update June 10, 2025 On Thursday, June 12, the House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing entitled “Housing in the Heartland: Addressing Our Rural Housing Needs.” The hearing is scheduled for 2:00 p.m., Eastern and can be streamed live here. The hearing with focus on ways to bring additional…

Hotel Cancellations – Annual Meeting

CARH’S BROADCAST E-MAIL – Annual Meeting June 6, 2025 CARH’s Annual Meeting & Legislative Conference is just over two weeks away!! As mentioned in CARH’s May 28th broadcast email, the hotel room block at The Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City is full, and there is now a wait list. If you already have a room reservation and…

HUD Proposes Rescission of Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing Regulations

CARH’S BROADCAST E-MAIL – Regulatory Alert June 5, 2025 On June 3, 2025, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published a proposed rule in the Federal Register to rescind its Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing regulations, codified at 24 CFR parts 108 and 200, subpart M. These regulations currently require participants in certain HUD…

Details of Fiscal Year 2026 Budget for USDA and HUD Released on May 30, 2025

CARH’S BROADCAST E-MAIL – Regulatory Alert June 4, 2025 Late on Friday, May 30, the Trump Administration issued its full justification for its proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget requests for the federal government. This justification provides details on the skinny budget for FY 2026 that was released on May 2, 2025. As was reported…

HUD: HOTMA Final Rule Compliance Date Extended to January 1, 2026

On May 30, 2025, HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing sent out the following information: Today, the Office of Multifamily Housing Programs published a Housing Notice extending the Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act of 2016 (HOTMA) compliance date from July 1, 2025, to January 1, 2026, for all owners participating in HUD Multifamily project-based rental assistance programs. Full compliance with the…

CARH Annual Meeting: Hotel Room Block Full; Discounted Registration Ends Friday, May 30; Board of Directors’ Questionnaire Due June 6

BROADCAST E-MAIL – Annual Meeting May 28, 2025 CARH’s 2025 Annual Meeting & Legislative Conference will be held on June 23-25, 2025, at The Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City, Arlington, Virginia. The Meeting Brochure, which includes the full agenda, can be viewed and downloaded by clicking here. HOTEL ROOM BLOCK FULL The room block at The Ritz-Carlton,…

House Passes H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Act, and Sends to Senate – Future Uncertain

CARH’s BROADCAST EMAIL—Legislative Alert May 28, 2025 On Thursday, May 22, 2025, the House of Representatives by a vote of 215-214 (one member voted present) passed H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Act, a multi-trillion-dollar package of spending and tax cuts championed by President Trump. Many of the tax cuts provided in H.R. 1 were…