CARH’S BROADCAST EMAIL – Legislative Update July 31, 2025 Background Both the House of Representatives and the Senate are continuing to advance their various appropriations bills that will fund the federal government in Fiscal Year (FY) 2026, which begins on October 1, 2025. Funding for the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Development (RD)…
CARH’S BROADCAST EMAIL – Legislative Update July 30, 2025 On July 29, 2025, the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, by a unanimous vote of 24-0, passed legislation titled the Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream to Housing Act (hereafter referred to as its short title, the “ROAD to Housing Act”). This was a…
CARH’S BROADCAST E-MAIL – CARH News July 24, 2025 The June/July edition of CARH News, CARH’s bimonthly digital newsletter, is now available online on CARH’s website, www.carh.org, or by clicking here. In this issue, you will find: CARH Annual Meeting & Legislative Conference Offers the Latest News on Rural Issues Top 20 of 2025 Survey…
CARH’S BROADCAST E-MAIL – Regulatory Alert July 24, 2025 Today, USDA issued a Press Release entitled “Secretary Rollins Announces USDA Reorganization, Restoring the Department’s Core Mission of Supporting American Agriculture”. Included in the press release, is a Secretary Memorandum on this subject. CARH is reviewing the reorganization structure to ensure that there will be sufficient…
Multifamily Production has published the New FY 25 Q3 data on HUD.gov. The file has been split into two and is now available as FHA MF Firm Commitments and Endorsements Database, and Quarterly Firm Commitments and Endorsements as prepared by the Office of Residential Care Facilities (ORCF). Please direct any questions to MFProductionHQ@hud.gov and note that this version…
The Office of Multifamily Housing Programs (MFH) published updated Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act of 2016 (HOTMA) related forms to the Drafting Table to ensure stakeholders have adequate time to consider and offer comment on proposed changes to these forms. As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), the forms were made available…
STAKEHOLDER ANNOUNCEMENT USDA Seeks Applications for Funding to Help Rural Towns Strengthen Housing and Economic Development WASHINGTON, July 8, 2025 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development invites applications for grants to provide strong rural communities the leadership and technical know-how to keep growing. The funding is being made available through the Rural Community…
CARH’S BROADCAST EMAIL – Legislative Update July 8, 2025 On July 3, 2025, the House of Representatives, by a vote of 218-214, passed for a second time, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Passage of the legislation came after a series of intense reviews by the Senate Parliamentarian to ensure that provisions met the overall…
HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing sent out the following information on July 2, 2025: The Office of Recapitalization is hosting Office Hours for 202 PRAC owners and their partners who are contemplating RAD on Wednesday, July 23rd at 1 P.M., ET. Program experts will be available to engage with property owners and their partners on…
CARH’S BROADCAST E-MAIL – Regulatory Alert June 30, 2025 In today’s Federal Register, the Rural Housing Service (RHS) published a Proposed Rule entitled, Revisions to the Calculation of Annual Household Income and Net Family Assets in the Section 515 Rural Rental Housing and Section 514/516 Farm Labor Housing Programs. The changes are to align RHS’…