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On August 15, 2022, HUD’s Office of Housing sent the following information: Dear Multifamily Owners and Operators, The Office of Multifamily Housing recently published Housing Notice 2022-04/Mortgagee Letter 2022-12, introducing its new policy for delegating the process for approving borrowers’ requests for disbursement of funds from Reserve for Replacement (RfR) accounts to lenders. The Policy provides two options…

CARH’S BROADCAST EMAIL – MEMBER UPDATE On Friday, August 12th, at 12:00 p.m. EDT, CARH will be switching the host for our email service. We expect the change to take 2-3 hours, but it could be up to 24 hours before all emails sent to CARH are delivered. Outgoing emails may also be affected. Therefore,…

On August 3, 2022 a SAM.gov webinar was held. As you’ll recall, GSA’s Integrated Award Environment (IAE) will host a series of events to share information about how the entity validation process has changed and the improvements being made to the current experience. The first session focused on assisting entities that have begun the registration…

CARH’S BROADCAST E-MAIL — Member Update Did you ever wish there was an easier way to hear about newly released regulations from Rural Development (RD), Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD), Department of Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, Small Business Administration, Government Accountability Office, and other agencies that impact the affordable rural housing industry? Well,…

CARH’s BROADCAST EMAIL—Legislative Alert Yesterday, the Senate passed by reconciliation, H.R. 5376, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)  of 2022 (IRA), formerly referred to as the Build Back Better (BBB) Act. As has been reported over the last several months, the legislation that was likely to pass the Senate, would be a scaled down version of…

HUD’s Office of Housing released the following information on August 4, 2022:   Dear Multifamily Owners and Program Operators,  We are excited to share with you that the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for Fiscal Year 2022 published today. For the first time, owners participating in HUD’s Multifamily Section 8 project-based rental…

CARH’S BROADCAST E-MAIL – Regulatory Alert Today, Rural Development’s Office of Multifamily Housing issued updated 2022 Income Limits for the Section 538 Guaranteed Rural Rental Housing Program. The income limits are effective immediately. The current Income Limits are 115% of the Area Median Income (AMI) for each County/Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) and household size. The…

CARH’S BROADCAST E-MAIL – Regulatory Alert Rural Development’s Office of Multifamily Housing published a bulletin providing information on a SAM.gov webinar and MFH’s Field Operations’ staff quarterly meeting. 1)  SAM.gov Webinar – Today (Wednesday) August 3, 2022, at 1:00 p.m., Eastern GSA’s Integrated Award Environment (IAE) will host a series of events to share information…

CARH’S BROADCAST E-MAIL – CARH News The June/July 2022 edition of CARH News, the Council for Affordable and Rural Housing’s (CARH) bimonthly electronic 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 Annual Meeting & Legislative Conference Recap Counsel’s Corner: Treasury Announces…

NCHSA issued the following blogpost on July 29, 2022: New Treasury Guidance Adds Flexibility for Unobligated ERA 2 Dollars