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HUD Exchange announced the launch of a new Davis-Bacon training on Payroll Analysis. The second of a two-part training, this new set of modules walks Local Contracting Agencies (LCAs) through the correct way to conduct a payroll analysis.

Last week the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs favorably reported Adrianne Todman’s nomination to be Deputy Secretary at HUD to the full Senate.

Multifamily assisted households are eligible to enroll in the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB), a Federal Communications Commission subsidy program to help families and households struggling to afford internet service during the COVID-19 pandemic.

HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing does not plan to offer a further blanket extension for annual financial statement (AFS) submissions for properties beyond the current extension through June 30, 2021.

HUD re-released the 1997-2013 historical American Housing Survey (AHS) public use files and associated codebook.

HUD will host the first in a series of three webinars about the dangers of radon and how to manage risks associated with it from 2 to 3:30 p.m. ET on May 26.

The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) launched an Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) Resource Hub, Dashboard and Program Table to monitor trends, facilitate resource sharing and help renters access emergency rental assistance.

Minnesota’s Metropolitan Council announced another year of record funding levels. A total of $8 million was approved for the Local Housing Incentives Account (LHIA). These dollars will be available in the multifamily deferred pool of financing in the 2021 Consolidated RFP.

On May 14, the U.S. District of Court for the District of Columbia granted a motion from the defendants to stay the court’s decision to vacate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eviction moratorium in Alabama Association of Realtors v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The nationwide eviction moratorium remains in place until the Court of Appeals hears the case and makes its own decision.

Treasury Secretary Dr. Janet Yellen named Michael Hsu acting comptroller of the Currency under her authority to appoint deputy comptrollers and have the first deputy act as comptroller if there is a vacancy.

Announcement 2021-10 from the Internal Revenue Service confirms that the boundaries of Designated Qualified Opportunity Zones (OZs)were established at the time they were designated and are not subject to change from the 2020 decennial Census.

Rural Development (RD) at the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that Dan Rogers will become the director of Production and Preservation for RD’s Multifamily Housing Field Operations Division.