Rule2025-02088
HOME Investment Partnerships Program: Program Updates and Streamlining-Delay of Effective Date
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Published
February 3, 2025
Effective
April 20, 2025
Issuing agencies
Housing and Urban Development Department
Abstract
On January 6, 2025, HUD published the "HOME Investment Partnerships Program: Program Updates and Streamlining" final rule (HOME Final Rule) in the Federal Register. The HOME Final Rule provides for the rule to take effect on February 5, 2025. Consistent with the President's January 20, 2025, memorandum titled "Regulatory Freeze Pending Review", this notice announces that HUD is delaying the effective date for the HOME Final Rule until April 20, 2025.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 21 (Monday, February 3, 2025)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 8780-8781]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02088]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
24 CFR Parts 91, 92, 570, and 982
[Docket No. FR-6144-F-04]
RIN 2506-AC50
HOME Investment Partnerships Program: Program Updates and
Streamlining--Delay of Effective Date
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD).
ACTION: Final rule; delay of effective date.
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SUMMARY: On January 6, 2025, HUD published the ``HOME Investment
Partnerships Program: Program Updates and Streamlining'' final rule
(HOME Final Rule) in the Federal Register. The HOME Final Rule provides
for the rule to take effect on February 5, 2025. Consistent with the
President's January 20, 2025, memorandum titled ``Regulatory Freeze
Pending Review'', this notice announces that HUD is delaying the
effective date for the HOME Final Rule until April 20, 2025.
DATES: The effective date for the HOME Final Rule, published at 90 FR
746 (January 6, 2025), is delayed from February 5, 2025, until April
20, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Virginia Sardone, Director, Office of
Affordable Housing Programs, Office of Community Planning and
Development, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th
Street SW, Room 7160, Washington, DC 20410; telephone number (202) 708-
2684 (this is not a toll-free number). HUD welcomes and is prepared to
receive calls from individuals who are deaf or hard of
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hearing, as well as individuals with speech or communication
disabilities. To learn more about how to make an accessible telephone
call, please visit <a href="https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/telecommunications-relay-service-trs">https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/telecommunications-relay-service-trs</a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
On January 6, 2025 (90 FR 746), HUD published the HOME Final Rule
in the Federal Register. The HOME Final Rule revises the HOME
Investment Partnerships Program (HOME program) regulations to update,
simplify, or streamline requirements, better align the program with
other Federal housing programs, and implement recent amendments to the
HOME program statute.\1\ The HOME Final Rule also includes minor
revisions to the regulations for the Community Development Block Grant
and Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Programs consistent with the
implementation of the changes to the HOME program. The January 6, 2025,
HOME Final Rule provides for the rule to take effect on February 5,
2025.
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\1\ The HOME program is authorized by title II of the Cranston-
Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12721 et seq.)
and has been in operation since 1992.
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On January 20, 2025, the President issued a memorandum titled
``Regulatory Freeze Pending Review'' to executive departments and
agencies.\2\ The memorandum, among other things, asks executive
departments and agencies to consider postponing for 60 days from the
date of the memorandum the effective date of rules that have been
published in the Federal Register but that have not yet taken effect.
This postponement of the effective date of rules that have not yet
taken effect is to allow executive departments and agencies time to
review any questions of fact, law, and policy that the rules may raise.
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\2\ The memorandum is available on the White House's website,
<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/regulatory-freeze-pending-review/">https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/regulatory-freeze-pending-review/</a>.
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II. Delayed Effective Date of HOME Final Rule
HUD is delaying the effective date of the HOME Final Rule by 90
days from January 20, 2025. With this delay, the effective date for the
HOME Final Rule is now April 20, 2025.
This delay will provide HUD time to review the HOME Final Rule for
any questions of fact, law, and policy that the HOME Final Rule may
raise, as directed by the memorandum.
Accordingly, the HOME Final Rule published on January 6, 2025, at
90 FR 746 will take effect on April 20, 2025.
Matthew Ammon,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2025-02088 Filed 1-31-25; 8:45 am]
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