Request for Member Input: Reducing Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing; Deadline April 15th

Request for Member Input: Reducing Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing; Deadline April 15th

As operators and owners of multifamily properties,  your frontline expertise is invaluable to the administration deregulation agenda.

Background

In June 2019, Executive Order 13878 established a White House Council on Eliminating Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing, chaired by the HUD Secretary. The Council sought to identify Federal, State, local, and Tribal laws, regulations, and administrative practices that increase housing costs and reduce supply.  I attached this RFI for background purposes and the ideas NAHMA submitted in 2020 to the Administration.  Please review the two attached documents, the 2019 RFI – White House Council on Eliminating Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing and NAHMA’s Response Regulatory Barriers Streamlining Ideas.

We now have another opportunity to provide updated information, as deregulation is again a major priority for this Administration. We request members provide any ideas for deregulation, streamlining, or improve agency delivery of services that would improve your ability to operate properties and/or increase the supply of affordable housing.  While the 2020 NAHMA Response was to HUD, we are interested in your ideas for all federally-assisted programs in HUD, USDA-RHS, and LIHTC.

Key Areas for Your Consideration

  1. Operational Barriers
  • What regulatory requirements most significantly increase your operational costs?
  • Which compliance requirements are duplicative or create administrative burden without corresponding benefit to residents?
  1. Development and Preservation Challenges
  • What barriers have you or your colleagues encountered when attempting to develop new affordable housing?
  • What challenges do you face in preserving existing affordable units?
  1. Successful Solutions
  • What incentives, sanctions, or policies have worked to reduce regulatory barriers?
  • What best practices from your operations could be scaled nationally?
  1. Federal Actions
  • What specific HUD regulations, statutes, or administrative practices create unnecessary barriers?
  • What federal incentives would most effectively encourage state and local regulatory reform?
  • How could HUD better align its programs to reduce barriers while maintaining housing quality?

How to Respond

Please provide your insights by responding to this email or you can also send me a separate word document. Please include:

  1. Focused examples of specific regulatory barriers you’ve encountered
  2. Practical recommendations for policy changes

Your responses will be compiled into a comprehensive submission that reflects the expertise of our industry while protecting proprietary information and your identity.

Deadline

Please provide your input by April 15.  This is a significant opportunity to shape affordable housing policy. Your real-world experience is essential to ensuring that regulatory reforms address the actual barriers you face in providing safe, quality affordable housing.

Best,

Larry

Larry Keys, Vice President of Government Affairs
National Affordable Housing Management Association
400 N. Columbus St., Suite 203, Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone 703-683-8630, ext.3  Email , Website www.nahma.org

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