Senior Housing

The Urban Institute recently published a paper entitled “Demographic Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Housing Markets” that explores the key trends and challenges within the housing market for seniors and echo boomers, or young adults.

HUD recently published a proposed rule which would amend the agency’s regulations governing the Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Program and the Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities Program.

HUD will host two webcasts on Tuesday, March 27 to go over programs to assist with elderly housing.

On March 6, 2012, the House Financial Services Committee held a markup on its Views and Estimates of President Obama’s fiscal year 2013 budget.

The US Senate Transportation-HUD Appropriations The US Senate Transportation-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee marked up and reported its FY 2012 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill on September 21. A summary released by the Committee reports the following funding decisions…

HUD’s Office of Policy Development & Research has released a new Best Practices case study for a senior apartments project in Salinas, CA.

The House of Representatives Appropriations Transportation – Housing & Urban Development Subcommittee has released a draft funding bill for FY-2012. It is scheduled to be marked up by the committee today, Thursday September 8. The measure calls for $55.15 billion in discretionary spending across the two agencies, $19.8 billion less than President Obama’s request and $217 million below current spending. The bill would provide $16.7 billion to the Transportation Department, a $3 billion increase over current spending, and $38.1 billion for the Housing and Urban Development Department, a $3 billion cut.

HUD has released updated processing guidance for the Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly and Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities programs.

To assist sponsors and owners of Section 202 and Section 811 projects in reducing operating costs, HUD’s Office of Policy Development & Research has published Enhancing Energy Efficiency and Green Building Design in Section 202 and Section 811 Programs.

NH&RA is pleased to make available the slides presented at the recent 2011 NCAHMA Spring Affordable Housing Policy & Underwriting Forum, April 27-28 in Washington, DC. Slides will be available to the public for a limited time only, and then only available to NH&RA members.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Policy Development & Research recently released a new study entitled, “Enhancing Energy Efficiency and Green Building Design in Section 202 and Section 811 Programs.”

Today the White House released its FY-2011 Budget Proposal.