🏡Changes to Single Family Housing Loan Program
The Rural Housing Service (RHS or Agency), a Rural Development (RD) agency of USDA, published a final rule on August 15, 2024, to amend the current regulations regarding Special Servicing Options and adjust the Mortgage Recovery Advance (MRA) process. The February 11, 2025, effective date of that final rule is being deferred to April 14, 2025.
Learn More🏡HUD Delays HOME Investment Partnerships Program Rule Implementation
On January 6, 2025, HUD published the "HOME Investment Partnerships Program: Program Updates and Streamlining" final rule (HOME Final Rule) in the Federal Register. The HOME Final Rule provides for the rule to take effect on February 5, 2025. Consistent with the President's January 20, 2025, memorandum titled "Regulatory Freeze Pending Review", this notice announces that HUD is delaying the effective date for the HOME Final Rule until April 20, 2025.
Learn More🏠Emergency Price Relief Measures for American Families and Businesses
The memorandum outlines actions to provide emergency price relief for American families, targeting regulatory barriers contributing to high living costs. It emphasizes the need to reduce unnecessary regulatory burdens on housing, healthcare, and energy sectors, aiming to restore purchasing power and improve the quality of life for Americans.
Learn More🏡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.
Learn More🏡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.
Learn More🏡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.
Learn More🏡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.
Learn More💼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.
Learn More🏗️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.
Learn More🏢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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