HUD

HUD released its Section 3 Guidebook. Section 3 is a provision of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 that ensures employment, training and contracting opportunities for low- and very low-income workers and eligible businesses in connection with the planning, construction and rehabilitation of housing and community development projects assisted by HUD.

The Department of Energy released Weatherization Program Notice 22-5, which expands client eligibility for the program.

HUD issued Notice PIH 2022-01 to HUD-assisted housing owners clarifying the requirement they install carbon monoxide alarms or detectors in their properties.

Multifamily communities can work with local governments to apply for the 2021 Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant Notice of Funding Opportunity.

NH&RA joined a letter led by the National Leased Housing Association to HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge on its rent comparability study policy around the valuation of non-shelter services.

President Joe Biden (D) appointed Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development Assistant Secretary and Community Development Administration Director Matthew Heckles to serve as the HUD administrator for region three, covering Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, DC.

House Committee on Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) and several Democratic Members of the Committee, including Reps. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Ritchie Torres (D-NY), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Madeleine Dean (D-PA), sent letters to HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge, as well as to New York and Philadelphia housing authorities, local officials and property owners following the two recent fire-related tragedies.

President Joe Biden (D) appointed Oregon Housing and Community Services Executive Director Margaret Salazar to serve as the HUD Administrator for Region 10.

HUD Multifamily is gathering vacancy and potential resource information to assist Afghan evacuees/refugees as they are resettled in the U.S. and seek permanent housing.

The Senate approved Alanna McCargo as president of Ginnie Mae by a voice vote on December 14.

HUD and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced an expansion of their partnership and the creation of a new national Housing and Services Resource Center.

HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing sent a memo to Federal Housing Administration Multifamily Accelerated Processing lenders eliminating the submission of a hard copy of closing documents, so long as they are identical in every respect as the submission that was provided electronically to HUD.