Department of Housing and Urban Development – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This final rule amends the regulations of the agencies listed above (the ``Agencies'') to clarify protections for beneficiaries and prospective beneficiaries of federally funded social services and the rights and obligations of organizations providing such services. In accordance with the Executive order of February 14, 2021, Establishment of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, this clarification should promote maximum participation by beneficiaries and providers in the Agencies' covered programs and activities and ensure consistency in the implementation of those programs and activities.

Section 2145 of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA) amended the maximum loan limits for manufactured home loans insured under Title I of the National Housing Act and required regulations to implement future indexing of the loan limit amounts for manufactured homes originated under the Manufactured Home Loan program. This rule establishes indexing methodologies using data from the United States Census Bureau (``Census'') to annually calculate the loan limits for Manufactured Home Loans, Manufactured Home Lot Loans, and Manufactured Home and Lot Combination Loans (``Combination Loans'') insured under Title I of the National Housing Act for the Manufactured Home Loan program. This final rule adopts HUD's October 18, 2022, proposed rule with changes.

This gives notice of a Housing Counseling Federal Advisory Committee (HCFAC) meeting and sets forth the proposed agenda. The HCFAC meeting will be held on Thursday, March 21, 2024. The meeting is open to the public and is accessible to individuals with disabilities.

On October 17, 2023, HUD issued a Notice of Expansion and Proposed Restructuring of the Digital Demonstration Program (ConnectHomeUSA). ConnectHomeUSA is designed to further the collaborative efforts by HUD-assisted housing organizations, government, industry, and nonprofit organizations to accelerate broadband internet adoption and use in HUD-assisted homes. This Notice extends eligible applicants to now include Continuum of Care Program and Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS Program grantees. This Notice also extends the application deadline for all applicants.

HUD is seeking approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the information collection described below. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is requesting comment from all interested parties on the proposed collection of information. The purpose of this notice is to allow for an additional 30 days of public comment.

HUD is seeking approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the information collection described below. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is requesting comment from all interested parties on the proposed collection of information. The purpose of this notice is to allow for an additional 30 days of public comment.

In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this announcement notifies the public of funding decisions made by the Department in competitions for funding under the Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs) and Notices for the following program(s): Authority to Accept Unsolicited Proposals for Research Partnerships, Impact Evaluation of the Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA), FY22 HUDRD CDBG Disaster Recovery Outcomes of Renter Households, FY22 HUDRDExploring the Feasibility of Linking Eviction Records to Administrative Databases for HUD's Housing Choice Voucher Program, FY21 Eviction Protection Grant Program Rounds 1 and 2, FY21 HBCU Research Center of Excellence, FY22 HUDRD-HBCU Research Center of Excellence, FY22 HUDRDWildfire Recovery and Resilience, FY22 HUDRDQualitative Data Collection for Cohort 2 MTW ExpansionRent Reform Experiment, FY22 Indian Community Development Block Grant (ICDBG and FY22 Indian Community Development Block Grant (ICDBG)Imminent Threat (IT), FY22 Foster Youth to Independence Competitive (FYI Competitive), FY22 Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grants, Housing Opportunities for Persons with HIV/AIDS (HOPWA), Rural Capacity Building for Community Development and Affordable Housing Grants, Veterans Housing Rehabilitation and Modification Pilot Program, and FY 2022 Comprehensive Housing Counseling Grant Program.

Pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the Department of the Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Office of Housing, the Office of Lender Activities and Program Compliance (OLAPC), is issuing a public notice of its intent to rescind the Lender Electronic Assessment Portal (LEAP) because information is not retrieve by personally identified information and therefor he system does not qualify as a Privacy Act System of Records.

HUD is seeking approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the information collection described below. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is requesting comment from all interested parties on the proposed collection of information. The purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment.

Pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Housing, Single Family Operations Division is modifying a system of records titled ``Distributive Shares and Refund Subsystem (DSRS)''. The DSRS serves as the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) repository for verifying mortgage insurance premium refunds and distributive share payments which are issued to eligible homeowners (mortgagors) who had an FHA mortgage insured loan. This system of records is being revised to make clarifying changes within: Authority for Maintenance of the System, System Location, Purpose of the System, Categories of Individuals Covered by the System, Categories of Records in the System, Records Source Category, Routine Uses of Records Maintained, Retention and Disposal of Records, Record Access Procedures, Contesting Record Procedures, and Notification Procedures. The modifications are outlined in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section.

This Request for Information (RFI) seeks public input on the implementation of the Build America, Buy America Act (BABA or the Act) as it applies to HUD's Federal Financial Assistance (FFA) provided in support of the construction, alteration, maintenance, and repair of housing infrastructure projects in the United States. The purpose of this RFI is to improve HUD's understanding of the current state of the domestic market for products required in housing infrastructure projects. HUD is especially interested in comments detailing domestic materials sourcing, market readiness, other product supply considerations, and whether specific housing products or their components are manufactured in the United States.

This notice updates the FY 2024 FMRs for one area based on new survey data.

Pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended by the Computer Matching and Privacy Act of 1988 and the Computer Matching and Privacy Protections Amendment of 1990 (Privacy Act), and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidance on the conduct of matching programs, notice is hereby given of the establishment of a matching program between the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency management Agency (FEMA) and Federal Insurance Mitigation Administration (FIMA) and HUD Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) grantees.

HUD is seeking approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the information collection described below. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is requesting comment from all interested parties on the proposed collection of information. The purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment.

This document advises Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) and the public that HUD is establishing an expedited waiver process for requests to waive HUD regulatory and/or administrative requirements (``HUD requirements'') for PHAs during Presidentially Declared Disasters (PDDs). PHAs located in areas that are included in PDD areas (PDD PHAs) may request waivers of certain HUD Public Housing and section 8 requirements and receive expedited review of such requests to utilize the administrative flexibilities and expedited waiver process set forth in this document.

The Debt Collection and Asset Management Systems (DCAMS) Title I/Generic Debt is used to collect and maintain data needed to support activities related to the Department's collection and servicing of various HUD/FHA debts, that support collection initiatives, such as wage garnishment, offset of federal payments, pursuit of judgments, and foreclosure; and supporting defensive litigation related to foreclosure and actions to quiet title. Pursuant to OMB Circular A-108, the Department of the Housing and Urban Development's Albany Financial Operations Center is issuing this notice of its intent to delete the system of records entitled HUD/HOU-55 Debt Collection and Asset Management System (DCAMS), which consists of two sister systems Title I and Generic Debt, HUD/HOU-55.

HUD's regulations provide for HUD to periodically publish in the Federal Register a notice that lists sources of income specifically excluded by any Federal statute from consideration as income for purposes of determining eligibility or benefits in a HUD program. HUD last published a notice that listed federally mandated exclusions from consideration of income on May 20, 2014. This notice replaces the previously published version, adds new exclusions, and removes exclusions that are now codified in HUD regulations.

Pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the Department of the Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Office of Single-Family Asset Management is issuing a public notice of its intent to rescind the Single-Family Default Monitoring System (SFDMS) because it is consolidated into the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Catalyst as of March 1, 2022.

Pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the Department of the Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Chief Information Officer (OCIO) and Infrastructure and Operations (IOO) is issuing a public notice of its intent to create a Privacy Act System of Records titled ``Active Directory (a component of the Local Area Network (LAN) File Server systemLFS)''. The purpose of the LFS is to provide the infrastructure needed to support internal HUD systems locally at all HUD locations. This technology includes Active Directory. Active Directory (AD) stores information about objects on the network and makes this information easy for administrators and users to find and use. Active Directory uses a structured data store as the basis for a logical, hierarchical organization of directory information. The information in Active Directory originates from the Digital Identity and Access Management System (DIAMS).

HUD is seeking approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the information collection described below. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is requesting comment from all interested parties on the proposed collection of information. The purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment.

HUD is seeking approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the information collection described below. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is requesting comment from all interested parties on the proposed collection of information. The purpose of this notice is to allow for an additional 30 days of public comment.

Pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the Department of the Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Office of Single-Family Asset Management, is issuing a public notice of its intent to rescind the Validation and Disposition Service (VDS-Best Ex) because the project was terminated and never went into Production.

This notice governs Community Development Block Grant disaster recovery (CDBG-DR) and Community Development Block Grant National Disaster Resilience (CDBG-NDR) funds awarded under several appropriations acts identified in the Table of Contents. Specifically, this notice provides waivers and establishes alternative requirements for certain CDBG-DR and CDBG-NDR grantees that have submitted requests for waivers and alternative requirements for grants provided under the public laws cited in this notice.

HUD is seeking approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the information collection described below. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is requesting comment from all interested parties on the proposed collection of information. The purpose of this notice is to allow for an additional 30 days of public comment.

HUD is seeking approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the information collection described below. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is requesting comment from all interested parties on the proposed collection of information. The purpose of this notice is to allow for an additional 30 days of public comment.