Klein Hornig possesses a thorough understanding of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) regulatory landscape and the cross-cutting requirements applicable to HUD programs, including prevailing wage, Section 3, subsidy layering review, environmental review, fair housing, and relocation. We leverage this experience to guide our clients through HUD for matters both novel and routine, facilitating the development and preservation of HUD-financed and HUD subsidized housing nationwide.
Our lawyers have worked with virtually all major HUD multifamily housing loan, rental assistance, and subsidy programs. We regularly represent for-profit and nonprofit owners, sponsors, investors, syndicators, property managers, and state and local government agencies in a variety of transactional and regulatory matters before HUD headquarters and at HUD field offices around the country. Our experience includes:
- Fair Housing Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance requirements;
- 2530 Previous Participation Clearance and Transfer of Physical Assets (TPA) procedures;
- Administrative/enforcement actions initiated by HUD’s monitoring and compliance branches;
- Relocation, acquisition, and related requirements of the Uniform Relocation Act (URA) and Section 104(d) of the 1974 Housing and Community Development Act;
- Davis-Bacon, prevailing wage, and Section 3 compliance requirements;
- National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and environmental review requirements; and
- Subsidy layering review (SLR).