Compliance, Financial Assistance 17 Jan 2025 compliance, regulations, housing, loans, hud, financial institutions, tribal

🏡Extension of Compliance Date for Section 184 Housing Program

This document extends the compliance date for HUD's final rule entitled "Strengthening the Section 184 Indian Housing Loan Guarantee Program" (the final rule). HUD is extending the compliance date from March 1, 2025, to December 31, 2025 to provide additional time for HUD to develop and implement a comprehensive handbook, to prepare new forms, and to allow Tribes, lenders, servicers, and other participants time to conform their policies, procedures, and systems to comply with the final rule.

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Grant Opportunities, Compliance Requirements 17 Jan 2025 federal regulations, funding, housing, community development, native tribes, block grants

🏡30-Day Notice

HUD is seeking approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the information collection described below. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is requesting comment from all interested parties on the proposed collection of information. The purpose of this notice is to allow for an additional 30 days of public comment. This notice is a correction to the notice HUD published on December 26, 2024.

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Regulatory Compliance, Housing Policy 17 Jan 2025 compliance, housing, urban development, hud, multifamily, nspe, inspection

🏡HUD's Correction to NSPIRE Scoring Notice Affects Business Compliance

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is correcting a final notice entitled, "National Standards for the Physical Inspection of Real Estate and Associated Protocols, Scoring Notice" that published in the Federal Register on July 7, 2023.

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Regulation, Compliance 16 Jan 2025 urban development, regulation, compliance, housing, fair housing

🏡HUD Withdraws Proposed Fair Housing Rule – No New Compliance Required

This document informs the public that HUD has determined not to pursue the proposed rule published in the Federal Register on February 9, 2023, entitled "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing". HUD will proceed to formally withdraw the rule from HUD's upcoming Spring 2025 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions.

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Regulations, Compliance 10 Jan 2025 agriculture, government contracts, transportation, government procurement, customs duties and inspection, imports, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, motor vehicle safety, employment, aliens, intergovernmental relations, penalties, law enforcement, motor vehicles, immigration, investigations, housing, business regulations, whistleblowing, health, airmen, civil penalties, trade agreements, inflation adjustments, insurance, department of labor, surety bonds, employee benefit plans, health insurance, construction industry, labor, monetary penalties, housing standards, wages, watches and jewelry, black lung benefits, indians-arts and crafts, labor management relations, lie detector tests, minimum wages, migrant labor, child labor, labor compliance, longshore and harbor workers, mine safety and health, homeworkers, miners, mines, teachers, maternal and child health, workers' compensation, occupational safety and health, clothing

💼2025 Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment - Labor Impact

The U.S. Department of Labor (Department) is publishing this final rule to adjust for inflation the civil monetary penalties assessed or enforced by the Department, pursuant to the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990 as amended by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015 (Inflation Adjustment Act). The Inflation Adjustment Act requires the Department to annually adjust its civil money penalty levels for inflation no later than January 15 of each year. The Inflation Adjustment Act provides that agencies shall adjust civil monetary penalties notwithstanding section 553 of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Additionally, the Inflation Adjustment Act provides a cost- of-living formula for adjustment of the civil penalties. Accordingly, this final rule sets forth the Department's 2025 annual adjustments for inflation to its civil monetary penalties.

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Grant Opportunities, Compliance Requirements, Economic Development 8 Jan 2025 business compliance, regulatory requirements, housing, disaster recovery, financial management, grant funding, cdbg-dr

🏗️Summary of CDBG-DR Grant Requirements and Financial Oversight

This notice contains a preamble and the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Universal Notice: Waivers and Alternative Requirements (the "Universal Notice"). The Universal Notice describes the processes, procedures, timelines, waivers, and alternative requirements that U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) intends to implement with each allocation of Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funding after a qualifying presidential disaster declaration. Specifically, following the appropriation of CDBG-DR funds for qualifying disasters, HUD will publish an Allocation Announcement Notice in the Federal Register that incorporates, via cross-reference, the waivers and alternative requirements provided in the Universal Notice, as appropriate, along with any other new requirements imposed by the specific appropriation. This notice also describes the grant award process, pre-award certification submissions, criteria for Action Plan approval, and eligible disaster recovery activities to streamline post-disaster processes for future grantees. By publishing the Universal Notice, HUD intends to provide grantees and the public with increased transparency, consistency, and more timely access to CDBG-DR funds, helping to minimize program delays and accelerate recovery.

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Regulatory Update 8 Jan 2025 information collection, housing, urban development, indian tribes, alaska native villages

🏢HUD Notice

HUD is publishing this notice to correct the heading on the notice that was published in the Federal Register on December 26, 2024. The heading should read 30-day Notice of Proposed Information Collection.

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Regulatory Changes, Financial Assistance 6 Jan 2025 compliance, puerto rico, regulations, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, student aid, grant programs-education, grant programs-housing and community development, housing, loan programs-housing and community development, manufactured homes, low and moderate income housing, indians, federal funding, guam, rent subsidies, hud, tenant protections, northern mariana islands, individuals with disabilities, pacific islands trust territory, grant programs-indians, virgin islands, affordable housing, community development block grants, aged, homeless, public housing, american samoa

🏠HUD Updates HOME Investment Program Regulations for 2023

HUD's HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME program or HOME) provides formula grants to States and units of general local government to fund a wide range of activities to produce and maintain affordable rental and homeownership housing and provides tenant-based rental assistance for low-income and very low-income households. This final rule revises the current HOME regulations to update, simplify, or streamline requirements, better align the program with other Federal housing programs, and implement recent amendments to the HOME statute. This final rule also includes minor revisions to the regulations for the Community Development Block Grant and Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Programs consistent with the implementation of the changes to the HOME program. This final rule follows the publication of a proposed rule on May 29, 2024, and takes into consideration the comments received in response to that proposed rule.

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Financial Assistance, Regulatory Requirements 3 Jan 2025 compliance, usda, business and industry, administrative practice and procedure, financial assistance, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, grant programs-housing and community development, mortgages, flood insurance, rural areas, credit, environmental impact statements, conflict of interests, housing, loan programs-housing and community development, manufactured homes, low and moderate income housing, home improvement, fair housing, loan programs, rural housing

🏠USDA Updates Rules for Manufactured Housing Financing Options

The Rural Housing Service (RHS or the Agency), a Rural Development (RD) agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is amending the current regulations for the Single Family Housing (SFH) Direct Loan Program and the SFH Guaranteed Loan Program. The intent of this final rule is to allow the Agency to give borrowers increased purchase options within a competitive market and increase adequate housing along with an enhanced customer experience with the SFH programs.

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