News

According to a forecast prepared by Zillow the Austin metropolitan area is on track to become by year’s end the least affordable major metro region for homebuyers outside of California.

Kansas Housing Resources Corporation will release the results of its year-long comprehensive statewide housing needs assessment following a state-wide tour.  

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released the 2022 Scorecard for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac (the Enterprises), and Common Securitization Solutions, LLC (CSS).

Yesterday, HUD announced staff appointments across several of its offices.

Congress returns from Thanksgiving break with a long to-do list and not much time left.

The NHP Foundation and Enterprise’s new report, A Decade of Rental Housing Vulnerability: Lessons Learned from Financial Crisis to Coronavirus, provides results of a survey of one hundred stakeholders from across the affordable housing spectrum, examining how lessons from recent history inform industry interventions of today and tomorrow.

Each year HUD’s Inspector General is required to submit a report to the HUD Secretary detailing the most serious management and performance challenges facing the Department.

HUD released an expanded Rental Assistance Demonstration data dashboard on the RAD Resource Desk.

On Friday, the House passed the $2 Trillion Build Back Better Act (H.R. 5376) along a party line vote.

Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHDA) CEO Joaquín Altoro accepted a position within the Biden-Harris administration as administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Housing Service, effective as of November 11.

The Office of Multifamily Housing published Mortgagee Letter 2021-26, which announces the required use of the FHA Catalyst: Multifamily Applications Module effective Dec. 10, 2021, for all electronic MAP application submissions.

The Internal Revenue Service released Revenue Procedure 2021-45, which sets state ceilings for nine percent LIHTCs and private activity bonds (PAB).