Chapter 15 - Department of Housing and Urban Development

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Assign all delegated powers to politically appointed leadership positions
Change current career leadership positions into political and non-career appointment positions
Use Senior Executive Service (SES) transfers to install aligned leadership
Make the HUD Secretary a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S.
Create a HUD task force to identify and reverse Biden Administration actions advancing progressive ideology
Review all subregulatory guidance instituted outside of the Administrative Procedure Act
End the Biden Administration's Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity (PAVE) policies
Repeal climate change initiatives and spending
Repeal the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulation
Eliminate the new Housing Supply Fund
Prohibit noncitizens and mixed-status families from living in federally assisted housing
Implement stricter work and work-readiness requirements
Impose maximum term limits for residents in public housing and rental assistance programs
Reduce the implicit anti-marriage bias in housing assistance programs
End Housing First policies for addressing homelessness
Suspend external research and evaluation grants in the Office of Policy Development and Research
Increase mortgage insurance premiums for longer-term mortgages
Encourage shorter-duration mortgages
Move the Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECM) program to its own special risk insurance fund
Revise loan limit determinations
Provide statutory flexibility for shorter-term mortgage products
Restrict FHA eligibility to first-time homebuyers
Move the HUD Real Estate Assessment Center from PIH to the Office of Housing
Maintain budget authority for modernization initiatives in IT and program offices
Encourage choice and competition in rental markets
Add flexibility to rent payment terms
Prioritize federal rental assistance subsidies that emphasize choice and mobility
Provide authority for maximal flexibility in PHA land sales
Consider the future of the public housing model
Oppose efforts to weaken single-family zoning
Propose tax credits for renovation or repair of housing stock in rural areas
Devolve many HUD functions to states and localities
Consider consolidating some programs and eliminating others
Narrow the scope of many programs closer to their original purposes
Potentially transfer some HUD functions to other federal agencies (e.g., loan guarantee programs to SBA, Indian housing programs to Department of Interior)