On December 5, LeadingAge participated in an invitation-only roundtable with House Financial Services Chair Maxine Waters (D-CA), Representatives Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) to discuss draft Tenant Empowerment Act bill.
On December 2, LeadingAge issued a call to action, urging our members to call and email their representatives and senators in support of funding for new homes in HUD’s Section 202 Housing for the Elderly program.
Just before Thanksgiving, Congress made progress on year-end spending negotiations and is now finalizing details of HUD’s fiscal year 2020 appropriations bill.
Congress has enacted a second continuing resolution (CR) for fiscal year 2020. This latest CR, adopted as the first was expiring on November 21, keeps federal programs funded through December 20.
Congress did not pass any of its 12 annual appropriations bills in time for the October 1 start of the new fiscal year.
Congress is currently funding all federal discretionary programs at fiscal year 2019 levels until midnight December 20 under the CR.
On November 22, HUD published new Operating Cost Adjustment Factors. The new OCAFs are effective 2/11/20. The OCAFs are annual factors used to adjust Section 8 rents renewed under section 515 (mark-to-market) or section 524 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Accountability Act of 1997 (MAHRA).
All federal programs that rely on annual appropriations, such as HUD’s housing programs, are being funded at FY19 levels for the duration of the CR because none of the 12 appropriations bills have been enacted. The new federal fiscal year began on October 1.
LeadingAge has launched a My LeadingAge Member Community, which all members can participate in.
Via the My LeadingAge Member Community, members can connect with each other to exchange knowledge, solve problems, and share resources.
The Housing Operations and Policy group within the My LeadingAge Member Community is the next generation of LeadingAge’s housing operations and policy listserv.
“As both the number and share of older households in the United States increase to unprecedented levels, inequalities are becoming more evident,” says the introduction to the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University’s Housing America’s Older Adults 2019.
The Senate passed its fiscal year 2020 HUD appropriations bill on October 31. The House passed its HUD FY20 appropriations bill in June. The two bills must be reconciled. Before the two can be reconciled, House and Senate Appropriations Committees must agree on spending limits for each of the 12 subcommittees, including the one that funds HUD. Without this subcommittee allocation agreement, the enactment of a final bill cannot occur.
As LeadingAge noted as a possibility in an August 20 article, the Trump Administration’s “public charge” rule has been temporarily delayed by a court’s nationwide injunction that prohibits the Administration from enforcing its requirements. Because of the court’s ruling, the public charge rule will not go into effect on October 15 as planned.
On October 11, judges in both New York and California issued injunctions to stop the new regulation from going into effect.
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