Notice2025-05663
Amendment of Notice of Funding Availability for Multifamily Housing Programs
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Published
April 2, 2025
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Agriculture DepartmentRural Housing Service
Abstract
The Rural Housing Service (RHS or Agency), an agency within the United States Department of Agriculture, Rural Development (RD), is amending two program funding opportunities to remove references to the prior Administration's key priorities and DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion)-related scoring criteria to bring them into compliance with the Executive Order, "Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing", issued on January 20, 2025. The following funding notices are covered by this amendment: Notice of Funds Availability for the Multifamily Housing Preservation and Revitalization Demonstration Program and for Section 515 Subsequent Loans for Preservation Activities for the Fiscal Year 2024, and Consolidated Multifamily Housing Technical Assistance Grant Program Notice of Funding Availability Fiscal Year 2024. This notice also confirms that previous Administration key priorities will not be considered during application scoring and makes clear that applicants who already have applied need not reapply.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 62 (Wednesday, April 2, 2025)]
[Notices]
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[FR Doc No: 2025-05663]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Housing Service
[Docket No.: RHS-25-MFH-0001]
Amendment of Notice of Funding Availability for Multifamily
Housing Programs
AGENCY: Rural Housing Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Rural Housing Service (RHS or Agency), an agency within
the United States Department of Agriculture, Rural Development (RD), is
amending two program funding opportunities to remove references to the
prior Administration's key priorities and DEI (diversity, equity, and
inclusion)-related scoring criteria to bring them into compliance with
the Executive Order, ``Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI
Programs and Preferencing'', issued on January 20, 2025. The following
funding notices are covered by this amendment: Notice of Funds
Availability for the Multifamily Housing Preservation and
Revitalization Demonstration Program and for Section 515 Subsequent
Loans for Preservation Activities for the Fiscal Year 2024, and
Consolidated Multifamily Housing Technical Assistance Grant Program
Notice of Funding Availability Fiscal Year 2024. This notice also
confirms that previous Administration key priorities will not be
considered during application scoring and makes clear that applicants
who already have applied need not reapply.
DATES: This notice is applicable April 2, 2025.
ADDRESSES: All addresses remain the same as in the original funding
opportunity announcements.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For any questions, please contact
Daniel J. Rogers, Director, Production & Preservation, Rural
Development, Office of Multifamily Housing, at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4d092c23242821631f222a283f3e7f0d383e292c632a223b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2367424d4a464f0d714c444651501163565047420d444c55">[email protected]</span></a>
or (202)-400-0127.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Overview
Under the previous Administration, RD established three key
priorities that were made public and incorporated into program
activities. The RD Key Priorities were incorporated into the funding
notices in the following manner. First, a general reference to the
Administration's key priorities was included in the introductory
section of the RD funding notices.
The previous Administration's RD Key Priorities for discretionary
points were generally:
(a) Creating More and Better Market Opportunities. Assisting rural
communities to recover economically through more and better market
opportunities and through improved infrastructure.
(b) Advancing Racial Justice, Place-Based Equity, and Opportunity.
Ensuring all rural residents have equitable access to RD programs and
benefits from RD funded projects.
(c) Addressing Climate Change and Environmental Justice. Reducing
climate pollution and increasing resilience to the impacts of climate
change through economic support to rural communities.
Second, the two funding notices made points available or permitted
the award of discretionary points related to one or more of the key
priorities. The notices provided that these points would or could be
considered as part of the application scoring.
RHS has identified the following program funding opportunities,
listed in Table 1, that reference the prior Administration's key
priorities and/or DEI-related scoring criteria.
Table 1
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Key priorities
Funding notice FR citation referenced/scoring
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Notice of Funds Availability 89 FR 79229......... Introduction--refere
for the Multifamily Housing nce.
Preservation and Scoring--Sections
Revitalization J11, J12, and J13.
Demonstration Program and
for Section 515 Subsequent
Loans for Preservation
Activities for the Fiscal
Year (FY) 2024.
Consolidated Multifamily 89 FR 76065......... Overview--reference.
Housing Technical Scoring--Administrat
Assistance Grant Program ion Discretionary
Notice of Funding Points, Sect. 6 for
Availability Fiscal Year each program listed
2024. in the consolidated
notice.
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B. Amendments Related to Previous Administration Key Priorities and
DEI-Related Scoring Criteria
The funding opportunities identified in Table 1 are hereby amended
to remove reference to or consideration of those Key Priorities. In
addition, to the extent the program notices made points available or
permitted the award of discretionary for meeting the Key Priorities,
those points will not be available or awarded.
C. Guidance to Applicants
Applicants do not need to withdraw, submit a new or revised
application, or supplement their application. The program will review
the application consistent with this notice.
Applicants may direct any questions related to the program funding
opportunity to the ``address'' or ``further contact information''
provided in the original notice.
Angilla Denton,
Acting Administrator, Rural Housing Service.
[FR Doc. 2025-05663 Filed 4-1-25; 8:45 am]
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