CARH Broadcast Email—Legislative Update 1) Update on Congress and the Administration’s Action on COVID-19 Legislation On July 9, 2020, CARH sent a detailed broadcast email regarding the status of a variety of legislative items impacting the rural housing industry as the country attempts to deal with and recover from the coronavirus pandemic as well the…
CARH’S BROADCAST E-MAIL – Member Update Next week, Colleen Fisher, CARH’s Executive Director, will serve as a panelist at a virtual Affordable Housing Event moderated by Editor-At-Large, Steve Clemons of The Hill, a non-partisan news and media newspaper and website that reports on the business of Washington DC, while covering the inner-workings of Congress, political…
CARH’S BROADCAST E-MAIL – Regulatory Update The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published a Notice in Friday’s Federal Register on the Fair Market Rents for the Housing Choice Voucher Program, Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy Program, and Other Programs Fiscal Year 2021. Section 8(c)(1) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (USHA),…
CARH’S BROADCAST E-MAIL – Member Update The affordable rental housing industry has been engaged in important advocacy efforts related to COVID-19 and rental housing. The National Leased Housing Association (NLHA), one of CARH’s closest partners, has formulated a survey to collect data to further inform what impact the pandemic is having (both short-term and long-term) on…
BROADCAST EMAIL – Regulatory Update Late Friday afternoon, Rural Development (RD) published a Procedural Notice (PN) 539 announcing final management fees for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021. Management fees will vary from state to state because RD has based the increase on HUD’s Operating Cost Adjustment Factor (OCAF) which varies based on location in the country…
On August 4, Rodney Corley, President of the CARH Scholarship Foundation (Foundation), announced the six recipients of the Foundations 2020 scholarships during a Zoom call. In addition to the recipients, participants on the call were representatives from the Foundation, CARH’s Board of Directors, CARH staff, and representatives of the management companies that manage the properties…
CARH Broadcast Email—Legislative Update As CARH members know from our July 9th Broadcast Email, Congress has begun to debate how the federal government should further respond to the coronavirus pandemic in the country. There remains a great deal of uncertainty as to the direction that Congress will take, particularly regarding the affordable housing industry and…
CARH’S BROADCAST E-MAIL – CARH News The June/July 2020 digital edition of CARH News, the Council for Affordable and Rural Housing’s (CARH) bimonthly digital newsletter, is now available online on CARH’s website, www.carh.org, or for viewing by clicking here. In this issue, you will find: CARH Holds First Virtual Annual Meeting CARH Elects New Officers…
CARH Broadcast Email—Legislative Update On June 3, the Senate, by unanimous consent, cleared H.R. 7010, the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act of 2020, to extend the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The bill modifies provisions related to the forgiveness of loans made to small businesses under the (PPP) implemented in response to…
On May 20, 2020, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency released a press release that included the final rule on CRA regulations as well as a list of CRA qualifying activities. CARH commented on the original proposed rule and will analyze the final rule. This will be a topic of discussion at CARH’s 2020…