HUD under the new Trump administration published on January 31 a delay in implementation of changes made to the HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) program regulations. Changes to the HOME regulations published in the Federal Register on January 6 were to take effect on February 5 (see Memo, 1/13). Implementation is now delayed until April 20, 2025. This delay was published in the “Tomorrow’s Documents Today” version of the Federal Register; the “official” delay will be published in the actual Federal Register on February 3.
The notice cites a January 20, 2025, Trump memorandum, “Regulatory Freeze Pending Review,” issued to all executive departments, “asking” them to “consider” postponing for 60 days the effective date of rules previously published in the Federal Register that had not taken effect as of January 20. The delay is to “allow executive departments and agencies time to review any questions of fact, law, and policy that the rules may raise.” In response, HUD delayed the effective date by 90 days, from February 5 to April 20.
NLIHC summarized key changes in the HOME regulations regarding tenant protections in Memo on December 20, 2024 and Community Housing Development Organizations (CHDOs) in Memo on December 28, 2024
Read the advance version of the Federal Register notice at: https://tinyurl.com/cd62v3zv
Read more about HOME on page 5-1 of NLIHC’s 2024 Advocates’ Guide.