CARH’s BROADCAST EMAIL – Legislative & Regulatory Update 1) President Signs into Law Continuing Resolution for FY 2021 Just after midnight today, President Trump signed into law H.R. 8337 – Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021 and Other Extensions Act (Public Law number has yet to be assigned). This legislation is a short-term Continuing Resolution (CR) for…
BROADCAST EMAIL – Regulatory Update 1) Counsel’s Corner Special – Final Rule or Final Word? HUD Finalizes New Disparate Impact Regulation On September 24, HUD published a Final Rule entitled, “HUD’s Implementation of the Fair Housing Act’s Disparate Impact Standard” in the Federal Register. Below, Harry J. Kelly, Esq., Partner at Nixon Peabody, LLP (CARH’s…
CARH’S BROADCAST E-MAIL – CARH News The August/September 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: PPP Loans and Hidden Tax Consequences CARH’s Executive Director on…
CARH Broadcast Email—Legislative Update As you know from CARH’s broadcast email yesterday, the Trump Administration, through the Centers for Disease Control, issued an Agency Order that imposes a moratorium on evictions, nation-wide, through at least December 31, 2020. The order is effective tomorrow, September 4th. This moratorium, together with Congress’ failure to act on…
BROADCAST EMAIL – Regulatory Update The Trump Administration, through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last night issued a sweeping Agency Order (Order) preventing all residential landlords in the United States from evicting any resident for the duration of the COVID-19, at least until December 31, 2020. American Samoa is exempted because there have been…
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…