Rule2026-08339
HOME Investment Partnerships Program: Further Program Updates and Streamlining
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Published
April 29, 2026
Issuing agencies
Housing and Urban Development Department
Abstract
This publication announces that HUD is delaying the effective date of HUD's January 6, 2025, final rule for all provisions not currently in effect, until the publication of an additional final rule.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 82 (Wednesday, April 29, 2026)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 23014-23015]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-08339]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
24 CFR Parts 91 and 92
[Docket No. FR-6144-F-08]
RIN 2506-AC50
HOME Investment Partnerships Program: Further Program Updates and
Streamlining
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD).
ACTION: Delay of effective date.
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SUMMARY: This publication announces that HUD is delaying the effective
date of HUD's January 6, 2025, final rule for all provisions not
currently in effect, until the publication of an additional final rule.
DATES: As of April 29, 2026, the effective date for amendatory
instruction 3 (revising 24 CFR 92.250) of the rule published at 90 FR
16085, April 17, 2025, which was delayed at 90 FR 48443 (October 22,
2025), is delayed indefinitely. As of April 29, 2026, amendatory
instruction 27 (revising 24 CFR 92.253) published at 90 FR 746 (January
6, 2025), which was delayed at 90 FR 8780 (February 3, 2025) and
subsequently delayed at 90 FR 16085 (April 17, 2025) and 90 FR 48443
(October 22, 2025), is delayed indefinitely.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Henrietta Owusu, Director, Program
Policy Division, Office of Affordable Housing Programs, Office of
Community Planning and Development, U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development, 2415 Eisenhower Ave., Alexandria, VA 22314;
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 hearing, as well as individuals with speech or communication
disabilities. To learn more about how to make an accessible telephone
call, 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, HUD published the HOME Investment Partnerships
Program: Program Updates and Streamlining final rule (HOME Final Rule)
in the Federal Register, available at 90 FR 746. The HOME Final Rule
incorporated a majority of the proposed regulatory changes described in
the HOME Proposed Rule. The HOME Final Rule provided for the rule to
take effect on February 5, 2025.
On January 20, 2025, the President issued a memorandum entitled
``Regulatory Freeze Pending Review'' (Regulatory Freeze Pending Review
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Memorandum) to executive departments and agencies.\1\ The Regulatory
Freeze Pending Review Memorandum, among other things, asks executive
departments and agencies to consider postponing the effective date of
rules that had been published in the Federal Register but had not yet
taken effect. The postponement allowed executive departments and
agencies time to review any questions of fact, law, and policy that the
rules may raise.
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\1\ Available at 90 FR 8249 (Jan. 28, 2025).
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On February 3, 2025, consistent with the Regulatory Freeze Pending
Review Memorandum, HUD delayed the effective date of the HOME Final
Rule from February 5, 2025, until April 20, 2025.\2\ HUD's delay of the
effective date of the HOME Final Rule until April 20, 2025, provided
HUD with time to review the HOME Final Rule for any questions of fact,
law, and policy that arose in the HOME Final Rule, as directed by the
Regulatory Freeze Pending Review Memorandum.
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\2\ See HOME Investment Partnerships Program: Program Updates
and Streamlining-Delay of Effective Date at 90 FR 8780.
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On April 17, 2025, HUD published the HOME Investment Partnerships
Program Updates and Streamlining--Delay of Effective Date, Withdrawal,
and Correction (Delay of Effective Date for Certain Provisions of the
HOME Final Rule Notice).\3\ The Delay of Effective Date for Certain
Provisions of the HOME Final Rule Notice further delayed the effective
date for the HOME Final Rule's addition of 24 CFR 92.250(c) and
revisions to 24 CFR 92.253 until October 30, 2025, while allowing a
majority of the HOME Final Rule to go into effect as of April 20, 2025.
The Delay of Effective Date for Certain Provisions of the HOME Final
Rule Notice also made certain technical revisions to the effective and
compliance dates in 24 CFR 92.3 of the HOME Final Rule. The effective
date was further delayed to April 30, 2026 (90 FR 48443).
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\3\ 90 FR 16085.
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II. Indefinite Delay of Effective Date
HUD now indefinitely delays the effective date for all provisions
of the final rule not yet in effect. This includes the change to Sec.
92.250 in 90 FR 16085 regarding green building standards and the change
to Sec. 92.253 in 90 FR 746 regarding tenant protections and
selection. HUD is indefinitely delaying these amendments so it can take
additional comment on these changes. HUD will, imminently, publish a
proposed rule. In a final rule, after consideration of comments on the
proposed rule, HUD will make a final determination on the these delayed
provisions.
Ronald J. Kurtz,
Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
[FR Doc. 2026-08339 Filed 4-28-26; 8:45 am]
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