hud

1. September 19, 2026News2 receipts2 min

   The Energy Department says its 2022 energy-efficiency standards for manufactured homes now have 'no legal effect' and will not be enforced. A July housing law moved that job to HUD, which has one year to set standards and has not yet.

   In a one-page notice published September 18, the Department of Energy said its May 31, 2022 final rule setting energy conservation standards for manufactured homes 'has no legal effect' and that it 'will not enforce' them. The reason is the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, signed July 11, 2026, which says no federal energy-efficiency standard for manufactured homes has legal effect until the Department of Housing and Urban Development adopts it through its own consensus process. The law gives HUD one year, to July 2027, to adopt minimum standards and requires updates every three years. HUD has adopted none yet. DOE says it will write a rule to conform its regulations. The notice gives no estimate of the effect on home prices or energy bills and has no comment period.

   Also filed underenergy-departmentmanufactured-housingenergy-efficiencyaffordable-housingfederal-register

2. September 19, 2026News2 receipts3 min

   A federal program let state housing agencies insure their own affordable-housing loans, backing 93,670 rental units in a decade. HUD says it has had no claim since 2014, and has never done an on-site review of the agencies, citing resources.

   GAO's report of September 15 describes HUD's multifamily risk-sharing program, in which state and local housing finance agencies underwrite affordable-housing loans that FHA insures, sharing between 10 and 90 percent of any loss. From 2016 through 2025 the agencies wrote more than $12 billion of insured loans, financing 776 projects and about 93,670 rental units, roughly 7 percent of the units across the FHA multifamily programs GAO compared. Three states account for about two-thirds of the lending. HUD officials told GAO there have been no claims on risk-sharing loans since 2014, and that HUD has not conducted on-site reviews of the agencies because of resource constraints, unlike the private lenders in its traditional program, who face a full review every three years. The governing handbook dates from 1995. GAO makes no recommendations, and HUD and Treasury sent no comments.

   Also filed undergaoaffordable-housingmortgage-insuranceoversightrental-housing

3. September 17, 2026News2 receipts2 min

   Thirty federal programs can fund Native American housing. GAO told the Senate that the money has not kept pace with construction costs, and that Tribes mostly use it to hold existing housing together rather than build.

   GAO testified before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on September 17, from ongoing work. Its preliminary observations: 30 federal programs can provide housing support targeted to Native American communities — American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian — the largest being the Indian Housing Block Grant. Tribes and tribal organizations GAO contacted said they use those programs primarily to maintain existing housing and, to a lesser extent, to construct new, and named limitations including funding that 'had not kept pace with rising construction costs' and certain program restrictions. GAO is also examining homelessness that does not look like homelessness in the federal data — including 'doubling up', temporarily staying with others.

   Also filed undergaohousingnative-americancongresstestimony

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