🏘️HUD Announces Major Funding Awards for Housing Initiatives
In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this announcement notifies the public of funding decisions made by the Department in competitions for funding under the Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs) and Notices for the following program(s): Fiscal Year 2023 Continuum of Care, FY23 Notice of Funding Opportunity for the Department's FY23 Homeownership Initiative Grant, FY23 Increasing the Supply of Affordable Housing through Off-Site Construction and Pro- Housing Reforms Research Grant Program, FY23 Comprehensive Housing Counseling, FY23 Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grants, FY23 ICDBG-Single Purpose, FY23 ICDBG- Imminent Threat (IT) Grant, FY22 Resident Opportunity and Self-Sufficiency Service Coordinator Program (ROSS), and FY23 ROSS.
Learn More🏠HUD Announces Vacant Loan Sales
This notice announces HUD's intention to offer approximately 1,945 home equity conversion mortgages (HECM, or reverse mortgage loans) secured by vacant properties with a loan balance of approximately $550 million, in a competitive sale. This initiative supports HUD's continued efforts to reduce financial risk to the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund and promote the efficient disposition of defaulted assets. The sale will consist of due and payable Secretary- held reverse mortgage loans. The mortgage loans consist of first liens secured by single family, vacant residential properties, where all borrowers are deceased, and no borrower is survived by a non-borrowing spouse. This notice also generally describes the bidding process for the sale and certain entities who are ineligible to bid. This is the sixteenth sale offering of its type and will be held on September 24, 2025.
Learn More🏘️Compliance Requirements for HOPWA Safety Standards Announced
The Department of the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is correcting a notice entitled "National Standards for the Physical Inspection of Real Estate, Carbon Monoxide Detection Requirements, and Smoke Alarm Requirements: Implementation Guidance and Inspection Standards for the Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS Program" that published in the Federal Register on August 5, 2025, to reflect accurate compliance dates.
Learn More🏠Waivers and Alternative Requirements for the Jobs Plus Initiative
Since Fiscal Year (FY) 2014, the Jobs Plus Pilot initiative program (commonly known as Jobs Plus or "JP") has provided competitive grants to partnerships between public housing authorities (PHAs), local workforce investment boards established under section 117 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, and other agencies and organizations that provide support to help public housing residents obtain employment and increase earnings. On March 29, 2018, HUD published a Federal Register notice announcing waivers and alternative requirements for Jobs Plus. This notice establishes a new rent incentive structure in accordance with the Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act of 2016 (HOTMA) (approved July 29, 2016), for FY 2025 and future Jobs Plus grants. This notice also states that Jobs Plus grants awarded for FY2023-2024 and prior FYs are subject to 24 CFR 960.255(e)(2) and must continue to implement the Jobs Plus rent incentive in accordance with the Jobs Plus Earned Income Disregard (JPEID) structure.
Learn More🏠HUD Notice
Section 106 of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 (the HUD Reform Act) requires HUD to publish quarterly Federal Register notices of all regulatory waivers that HUD has approved. Each notice covers the quarterly period since the previous Federal Register notice. The purpose of this notice is to comply with the requirements of section 106 of the HUD Reform Act. This notice contains a list of regulatory waivers granted by HUD during the period beginning on January 1, 2025 and ending on March 31, 2025.
Learn More📜Modifications to HUD's Privacy Act System
Under the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Administration is issuing a public notice of its intent to modify the Privacy Act System of Records titled "Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Management System (FMS2)". This system of records is being revised to make clarifying changes within the system of records, system manager, categories of records in the system, records source categories, routine uses of records maintained in the system.
Learn More🏗️Waivers and Alternative Requirements for CDBG Disaster Recovery Funds
This notice governs Community Development Block Grant disaster recovery (CDBG-DR) and Community Development Block Grant mitigation (CDBG-MIT) funds awarded under several appropriations acts identified in the Table of Contents. Specifically, this notice includes waivers and alternative requirements for the State of Louisiana; Kauai County, HI; and American Samoa in response to their submitted requests for waivers and alternative requirements for grants provided under the public laws cited in this notice.
Learn More🏠HOPWA NSPIRE Standards Implementation Guidance Overview
This notice serves as a complementary document to the Economic Growth Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act: Implementation of National Standards for the Physical Inspection of Real Estate (NSPIRE) rule published May 11, 2023. The NSPIRE rule provided that HUD's Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD) would publish an additional notice on the NSPIRE Standards for the Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA) program. HUD is providing implementation guidance on NSPIRE physical inspection standards for the HOPWA program to accompany the NSPIRE rule through this notice. This notice provides guidance to HOPWA grantees on how to inspect HOPWA-assisted units for compliance with the NSPIRE rule, and how to ensure corrections are made, if needed. This notice also provides guidance on statutory requirements that require grantees to ensure each dwelling unit assisted under the HOPWA program contains installed qualifying carbon monoxide (CO) alarms or detectors and smoke alarms.
Learn More🏠Tenant Protection Voucher Funding Awards for FY 2024 Announced
In accordance with the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this document notifies the public of Tenant Protection Voucher (TPV) funding awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 to public housing agencies (PHAs) under the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCVP). The purpose of this notice is to publish the names, addresses of awardees, and the amount of their non- competitive funding awards for assisting households affected by housing conversion actions, public housing relocations and replacements, and moderate rehabilitation replacements. This notice also includes a link to the TPV awards issued since FY 2020, which can be sorted by PHAs, project name and identification number, by category of TPVs such as Multifamily or Public Housing, and by state and by HUD regions.
Learn More🏡HUD's Notice on Modifications to Mortgage Insurance Records
Under the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office Single-Family Program Development, is issuing a public notice of its intent to modify the system of records for the "Single Family Mortgage Insurance Origination System (SFMIOS)". SFMIOS combines the features of the: Computerized Homes Underwriting Management System (CHUMS)/Loan Application Management System (LAMS), Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and Connection (FHAC). The purpose of these modifications is to update the system of records authority for maintenance of the system and categories of records. The updates are explained in the "Supplementary Section" of this notice.
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