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The Louisiana Housing Corporation published the following documents for its Piggyback Resilience Initiative-Mixed Income (PRIME) Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA)

The Louisiana Housing Corporation (LHC) is accepting applications for its Neighborhood Landlord Rental Program Phase II (NLRP2 Initiative) through 4:30 pm CT on January 31. All written inquiries must be submitted to nlrp@lhc.la.gov.

The Kentucky Housing Corporation (KHC) released its draft 2021-2022 QAP and draft 2021-2022 multifamily guidelines for review. Comments are due by February 24. KHC will host a public hearing on February 17 to review the draft QAP and multifamily guidelines.

The Kansas Housing Resources Corporation released its 2019 Annual Report. Kansas leveraged $97.1 million for investment in rental housing, served 21,436 Kansans through community services, sheltered 1,878 Kansans, weatherized 996 homes and installed 9,639 LED light bulbs.

On January 23, 2020, the Board of Directors of the Florida Housing Finance Corporation approved the Review Committees’ motions and staff recommendations to adopt the scoring results, select applications for funding, and invite the applicants to enter credit underwriting regarding RFAs 2019-112, 2019-115, and 2019-118. 

The California Tax Credit Allocation Committee (TCAC) will hold public meetings on January 30 and 31 on its proposed emergency regulation changes, which set the allocation rules for the approximately $1 billion of new Federal LIHTCs from the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020.

In November, HUD and the White House Council on Eliminating Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing issued a Request for Information seeking public comment on Federal, State, local and Tribal laws, regulations, land use requirements and administrative practices that artificially raise the costs of affordable housing development and contribute to shortages in America’s housing supply. Comments […]

HUD released a proposed rule that would amend its Fair Housing Act design and construction regulations by incorporating by reference the 2009 edition of International Code Council (ICC) Accessible and Usable Building and Facilities (ICC A117.1-2009) standard, as a safe harbor.

HUD’s Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes launched new training and web pages to help users review federal lead regulations and the Lead Safe Housing Rule Amendment for pre-1978 housing. The goal of these pages is to help Public Housing Agencies, grantees and owners respond to cases of elevated blood lead levels in […]

On the one year anniversary of Microsoft’s $500 million investment in affordable housing, the company announced an additional $250 million investment in affordable housing. The new investments will be placed with the Washington State Housing Finance Commission to allow them to bridge tax-exempt bond cap as well $50 million to seed the new Evergreen Housing Impact Fund.

HUD released its 2019 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, which found that 567,715 persons experienced homelessness on a single night in 2019, a three percent increase over 2018. Homelessness among veterans and families with children continued to fall, declining 2.1 percent and 4.8 percent, respectively, in 2019.

The Inspector General of the U.S. Department of the Treasury launched an internal investigation on abuse in the Opportunity Zone program. Rich Delmar, the department’s acting inspector general, said in a statement he expects “to complete our work and respond to the congressional requesters in early spring.”