Federal / Agency News

Chairman Mike Flood (R-NE) and Ranking Member Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) hosted a press conference to highlight reforms introduced in the HOME Reform Act of 2025. The House Financial Services Committee will hold a Building Capacity: Reducing Government Roadblocks to Housing Supply hearing at 10 a.m. ET on December 3, as well as a markup of […]

Chairman Mike Flood (R-NE) of the House Financial Services’ Housing and Insurance Subcommittee is working on another draft piece of legislation to exempt a long list of HUD and USDA housing programs from BABA compliance. His office is requesting: Call to Action: Please send Ilana Morof your data and/or anecdotes by COB Monday, December 1st.

CohnReznick released their biennial report on the performance of properties financed with federal LIHTCs.

Detailed by The AP (and first reported by the Wall Street Journal), Fannie Mae experienced a leadership shakeup in mid-October after a senior executive shared confidential mortgage-pricing and lender-level data with Freddie Mac. The data disclosure was flagged internally by senior Fannie Mae officials including Danielle McCoy, Fannie Mae’s former general counsel, saying it should […]

At 10:30 a.m. today, the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee will vote on the nominations of: The live vote can be accessed here. Go deeper: See the November 5 edition for more including a recap of their nomination hearing and information on their backgrounds. NH&RA sent this letter of support for Cassidy’s nomination.

President Trump signed H.R. 5371 into law to end the government shutdown after a record-breaking 43 days. H.R. 5371 funded three of twelve appropriations bills through the remainder of FY 2026, while the remaining government operations are funded by a continuing resolution through January 30. Go Deeper: The Council of Affordable and Rural Housing (CARH) […]

The Trump administration announced a major shift in $3.9 billion in homelessness funding with the release of the FY 2025 Continuum of Care (C0C) Competition and Youth Homeless Demonstration Program Grants Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) last week. By the Numbers: What They’re Saying: “People all over this nation have overcome homelessness and stabilized in […]

The National Council of Housing Market Analysts (NCHMA) released updated model content standards for market studies. By the Numbers: 24 states require either model content standards or NCHMA membership for their market analysts. Nine states require both model content standards and NCHMA membership. Updates include:

The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) hosted a webinar, Making Every Voucher Count: Strengthening the Housing Choice Voucher Program. Speakers discussed potential legislative and administrative reforms, local initiatives, and innovative solutions to the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program including:

On November 10, HUD published an extended compliance deadline to May 28, 2026 for the Adoption of Energy Efficiency Standards for New Construction of HUD- and USDA-Financed Housing in the Federal Register. The chart below shares which programs are impacted by new deadlines: In Context: On March 10, 2025, HUD published [90 FR 11622], extending […]

Reps. Mike Lawler (R-NY), Young Kim (R-CA), and Joyce Beatty (D-OH) introduced the Community Investment and Prosperity Act (H.R. 5913) to lift the public welfare investment (PWI) cap from 15 to 20 percent. Why This Matters: The proposal to lift the PWI cap, which passed the Senate in October as part of the ROAD to […]

Late Monday night, the Senate passed a federal funding measure to reopen the government by a vote of 60 to 40. The measure includes: Seven democrats and one independent voted with Republicans in exchange for a Senate vote on extending Affordable Care Act tax credits by the second week of December. This informal deal is […]