On August 14, 2025, HUD issued a bulletin regarding the 2026 Inflationary Adjustments and Passbook Rate: Recently, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Offices of Multifamily Housing Programs, Public and Indian Housing, and Community Planning and Development, published the 2026 Annual Inflationary Adjustments and Passbook Rate effective January 1, 2026. HUD…
CARH’S BROADCAST E-MAIL – Regulatory Alert and Legislative Update August 6, 2025 Regulatory Alert On August 5, FHFA issued a Press Release entitled, Consistent with the One Big Beautiful Bill, U.S. Federal Housing Expands America’s Affordable Housing Supply in Rural and Underserved Communities. According to the press release, with the passage of One Big Beautiful…
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…