On October 22, 2025, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a delay to its HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME): Updates & Streamlining Final Rule, which would impose ten new federally-mandated landlord-tenant requirements for covered housing. The initial rule, which was published on January 6, 2025, and set to take effect on February 5, was originally delayed to maintain consistency with President Trump’s memorandum, “Regulatory Freeze Pending Review.”
Some revisions were implemented on April 20, while the remaining changes were rescheduled for October 30, 2025, before this postponement. Due to the uncertainty surrounding the resolution of the shutdown, the implementation of this rule has been pushed back further to April 30, 2026. The upcoming effective revisions have amended Section 24 CFR 92.253 to require leases to include the HOME tenancy addendum, which lays out new rights and responsibilities. Some of these include significant “good cause” limitations on terminations of tenancy, anti-retaliation protections and the right to organize tenants in covered housing.
The National Apartment Association (NAA) commends HUD for the further delay and urges the agency to eliminate these requirements. The final rule could complicate housing providers’ compliance with state landlord-tenant laws and deter provider participation in the HOME program, a critical driver of affordable housing in communities across the country. NAA continues to work with HUD to support initiatives aimed at increasing housing affordability and streamlining programs to provide relief to renters, while avoiding the imposition of new requirements.