CARH’s BROADCAST EMAIL—Legislative Alert December 28, 2022 Last week, the Senate, by a vote of 68-29, and the House of Representatives, by a vote of 225-201, passed a full-year omnibus appropriations bill for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023. President Biden signed the bill into law on December 27. The $1.7 Trillion bill will fund the government,…
BROADCAST E-MAIL – Midyear Meeting December 27, 2022 Discounted registration discounts end today, Tuesday, December 27, for CARH’s 2023 Midyear Meeting which will be held January 23-25, at the Cheeca Lodge & Spa in Islamorada Florida. To take advantage of these lowest registration fees, submit your registration form and payment to the CARH National Office…
The White House has released the Inflation Reduction Act Guidebook which can be found here. This guidebook provides an overview of the clean energy, climate mitigation and resilience, agriculture, and conservation-related tax incentives and investment programs in President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, including who is eligible to apply for funding and for what activities. The…
HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing sent the following information: Dear Multifamily Owners and Stakeholders, The QuickVue At-Home OTC COVID-19 Test allows individuals and families to test themselves in the privacy of their own homes. This test helps detect the virus during the early stages of infection and allow individuals to act accordingly based on this…
HUD’s Office of Housing sent out the following information: SAM.gov and the Unique Entity Identifier: Entities already registered in System for Award Management (SAM) should have automatically received their new Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) but may also search for their UEI at SAM.gov. If a potential Supplemental Comprehensive Housing Counseling Notice of Funding Opportunity (Supplemental…
BROADCAST E-MAIL – Midyear Meeting December 15, 2022 CARH’s 2023 Midyear Meeting begins in just over a month! The meeting will be held January 23 – 25 at the Cheeca Lodge & Spa in Islamorada, Florida in the beautiful Florida Keys. Meeting Brochure The meeting brochure, including the full agenda, list of featured speakers and…
December 9, 2022 Rural Development’s Office of Multifamily Housing sent out the following information: Multifamily Housing (MFH) has developed a pilot program for simple transfers under authority in Section 506(b) of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended (42 U.S.C. §1476(b)). The purpose of the pilot program is to reduce application requirements for certain types…
RD’s Office of Multifamily Housing released the following information on December 8, 2022. (Also see CARH’s Broadcast Email of November 17, 2022): Multifamily Stakeholders, On October 13, 2022, the Social Security Administration announced an 8.7% increase in Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for 2023. They estimated that this adjustment will result…
On December 1, 2022, HUD released a statement announcing that it intends to base its Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 median family income (MFI) estimates and income limits on data from the 2021 American Community Survey (ACS). This is because of the Census Bureau’s decision to not release standard one-year estimates from the 2020 ACS. HUD…
November 28, 2022 Today, Representatives Suzan DelBene (WA-01) and Brad Wenstrup (OH-02) led 54 members of Congress urging House leadership to address the nation’s growing affordable housing shortage. In a letter, the lawmakers requested provisions that would strengthen and expand the Housing Credit be included in a potential year-end legislative package to increase affordable housing production…