Member Roundtable / Committee reminder - For additional engagement opportunities, we remind you that LeadingAge Indiana hosts many Roundtables / Committees for Provider and Associate members:
- For all engagement opportunities - please visit our website; and see the new Calendar of dates here.
- Please share this information with others who may benefit from participating. Our team would love to see you at any/all these events. For more information, please reach out to Ashley Sabins.
Weekly National Policy Pulse Calls. The calls are on Mondays at 3:30 p.m. ET. If you’re interested in signing up for these members-only calls, please sign up using the link on our National Policy Pulse webpage.
Housing Network Calls – Every Monday at 12:30pm ET; next Call: Monday, June 15, 12:30 p.m. ET, where we will discuss the latest on affordable housing. Join the weekly Housing Network Call for a discussion on updates related to affordable housing. The Housing Network is open to all provider members of LeadingAge. For details on joining the Network and other affordable housing groups that LeadingAge convenes, visit their website or contact Juliana Bilowich & Linda Couch.
Most Recent Senior Housing Weekly Recap
Senior Housing Weekly Recap
June 5, 2026
STILL DELAYED - HUD-Required Immigration Eligibility Reverification in Multifamily Housing. On May 21, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued a new, one-time requirement for certain federally-assisted housing providers to reverify the immigration status of selected tenants within 30 days. Within the next month, based on a new EIV report from HUD, owners participating in HUD’s project-based Section 8 program will need to verify eligibility and if needed, adjust the calculations for prorated rental assistance for mixed-status households. The report is a follow-up from HUD's January directive on immigration status verification of tenants, at which time HUD proceeded with the requirement for Public Housing but told LeadingAge that further instructions were forthcoming for MFH owners. HUD has confirmed to LeadingAge that this new requirement applies only to Project Based Section 8 2 properties and does not apply to Section 202 or 811 PRACs (owners should disregard this requirement for PRAC properties). If an owner follows HUD instructions but does not see the EIV report for a particular property, that means that the property’s tenants were not flagged for discrepancies and the owner does not need to take action for that property. Discrepancies related to immigration status within the new EIV report do not necessarily mean that a tenant should lose housing assistance, and housing providers are still required to follow all the necessary steps to verify eligibility prior to making eligibility decisions. **Update 5/29/26: HUD Immigration Verification EIV Report Temporarily Not Operational; MFH Owners to Await Further Instructions from HUD.** The EIV report used for the one-time immigration reverification required by HUD of certain housing providers is currently not operational. Owners should await further instruction; HUD will adjust the 30-day verification timeframe to accommodate delays. LeadingAge recommends that owners and agents document any attempts to access the report in the meantime.
House Appropriators Advance HUD Spending Bill. The House Appropriations Committee on June 4 advanced its proposed cuts to funding levels for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for Fiscal Year 2027. Overall, the bill proposes deeply harmful cuts to housing assistance, including key programs serving older adults and the aging services workforce. Among other programs, the cuts target public housing, homelessness assistance, Housing Choice Vouchers, Fair Housing enforcement, and the HOME Investment Partnerships Program, which LeadingAge members often pair with the Low Income Housing Tax Credit. The partisan funding bill advanced to the House floor on a 34 to 27 vote following lengthy debate. During the committee markup, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle offered amendments to adjust the text originally advanced by the subcommittee, including Democratic amendments that would have increased funding to address the country's housing crisis. Two notable amendments were adopted: a Republican amendment that would limit federal funding to areas following certain immigration policies, and a Democratic amendment that would prohibit HUD's recent proposal to limit rental assistance to households with mixed immigration statuses. Next, the House will vote on the proposal; the Senate has yet to release its version of the funding bill.
HUD: Older Adults Comprise 20% of Homeless Population. On May 29, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released its "2025 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR), Part 1." The report reveals the results of the agency's annual "Point-in-Time-Count," which estimates sheltered and unsheltered homelessness across the country. According to the report, approximately 745,652 people were experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2025. While the report showed the first reduction in overall homelessness since 2016 (3.4%), the data indicates that chronic homelessness continued to rise in 2025 to the highest figure on record. Adults aged 55 and over make up nearly 20% of all people experiencing homelessness. LeadingAge continues our advocacy to prevent and end homelessness among older adults, and we urge Congress to scale federal rental assistance programs and investments in homelessness interventions to address the housing crisis. Read the 2025 AHAR here.
Trump Administration Issues Overhauled Homeless Assistance Funding Notice. On June 1, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued its highly-anticipated funding notice for $4.04 billion in homelessness assistance awards for Fiscal Year 2026, continuing the agency’s effort to overhaul the program. The Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) sets HUD’s policy goals for the Continuum of Care (CoC) program, which coordinates homelessness services and initiatives on a regional basis. Despite ongoing legal battles related to a similar overhaul attempt within the 2025 funding notice, HUD for FY26 shifts awards away from Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH), promoting transitional housing instead. In HUD’s press release, Secretary Scott Turner decries permanent housing solutions that prioritize shelter for people experiencing homelessness, calling them “failures.” According to the latest HUD data available, nearly 40% of PSH residents in 2023 were older adults, and HUD’s recent Homelessness Assessment Report indicates that 20% of people experiencing homelessness are 55 and older. In addition, LeadingAge members who serve low-income older adults rely on PSH funding, including as a part of new developments through the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) as required by certain states. LeadingAge opposes the move by HUD to abandon proven homelessness supports and push older adults back into homelessness; stay tuned for further analysis.
GAO Report Outlines Need for Service Coordinator Data Improvements at HUD. In a June 1 report titled "Rural Housing: Weaknesses in Data Quality and Use Limit HUD’s Ability to Assess Effectiveness of Service Coordinators," the Government Accountability Office (GAO) described critical shortcomings in federal Service Coordinator program administration and data assessment, especially in rural areas. Service Coordinators are non-clinical staff who support older adults in affordable housing as they age independently. Throughout the report, GAO's researchers describe data integrity issues at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), including "weaknesses in the quality and use of HUD’s data for the multifamily housing program." Specifically, the GAO report found that HUD does not have uniform data entry procedures, meaning that HUD can't accurately determine how many properties have Service Coordinators and whether they comply with program requirements. The report also found that HUD does not routinely analyze performance reports that it requires Service Coordinators at multifamily properties to prepare, meaning that the agency cannot demonstrate program effectiveness despite having access to the data. LeadingAge has long urged HUD to improve Service Coordinator program administration, including by better utilizing the data it collects. LeadingAge was interviewed by GAO as part of the research process from 2024 to 2026. Read the report here.
Senators Introduce Bill to Allow Work Requirements, Time Limits in HUD-Assisted Housing. On June 3, Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Katie Britt (R-AL) introduced a legislative version of recent regulatory efforts to allow work requirements in certain programs run by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Called the Pathways to a Thriving Household (PATH) Act, the bill seeks to codify HUD’s proposed rule, which would give public housing authorities (PHAs) and HUD-assisted Multifamily Housing providers the authority to implement work requirements of up to 40 hours per week for “work-eligible adults.” Similar to HUD’s proposed rule, the legislative stipulates that the work requirements cannot be applied to an individual who is 62 or older; however, the housing provider could implement work requirements on other household members who are younger than 62, and the legislation states that housing providers can terminate assistance for either the household member or the entire household when a household member is out of compliance. The work requirements would also impact members of the aging services workforce, who may have inconsistent hours or schedules. The legislative effort seems to support the widely-held belief that HUD would need statutory authority prior to authorizing work requirements through the regulatory process – and contradict HUD statements about the existing legality of the proposed rulemaking. LeadingAge strongly opposes work requirements in federal rental assistance due to the harm for households and because of the burden on housing providers, who would have to cover the costs of required job training and supportive services without additional budget authority. Read the Senators’ press release here, and read LeadingAge’s comments opposing HUD’s proposed rule on work requirements here.
LeadingAge Analysis: CMS Medicaid Interim Final Rule on Work Requirements. Late on June 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released an interim final rule with comment (IFC) entitled Medicaid Program; Community Engagement Requirement for Certain Individuals. Community engagement requirements, more commonly called work requirements, were adopted as a mandatory eligibility qualification of Medicaid expansion enrollees in the congressionally enacted HR 1. The legislation, HR 1, commonly referred to as One Big Beautiful Bill, or the Working Families Tax Cut Act, required CMS to release rulemaking to establish eligibility and exemption criteria for states to deploy work requirements which need to be operational by January 1, 2027. The rule provides states with more details on establishing exemption criteria, timing for redeterminations, and steps beyond work requirements to align other related provisions from the law. Such provisions include the moratorium on enforcement of the 2024 Eligibility and Enrollment Rule, and changes to text from that rule to allow for increased frequencies of eligibility determinations, also mandated in the law for the Medicaid expansion population. Work requirements and increased frequencies of Medicaid renewals are new burdens on the expansion population- those 19-64 not enrolled via other eligibility pathways such as waiver or nursing home eligibility. A deeper dive into the rule is available here.
Reminder: For Members Only – LeadingAge to Host RAD for PRAC Peer-Sharing and Policy Discussion - June 9, 2pm ET. Join LeadingAge for a peer-sharing call on the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) for Section 202 PRAC properties in need of preservation and recapitalization. This call offers an informal discussion opportunity for housing providers who are currently utilizing or positioning to utilize RAD as a preservation tool for their Section 202 PRAC portfolios. We will also discuss critical feedback to HUD on their management of new rent boosts for converting properties through the Preservation Rent Increase (PRI). LeadingAge provider and business members can register here; please reach out to Juliana Bilowich, LeadingAge's VP of Housing Policy, with questions. Please note: This is NOT a RAD 101 session; more information on the basics of RAD for PRAC and on recent LeadingAge-driven policy improvements to the program are available on the LeadingAge Learning Hub.
Reminder: Immigration Enforcement Preparedness Guide Updated. In response to feedback from some of our affordable senior housing providers, we have updated the resource on immigration enforcement preparedness to include additional guidance for housing providers on potential enforcement actions targeting residents. You can access the new version here.
Reminder: Explore LeadingAge’s Policy Priorities for Affordable Housing for Fiscal Year 2026! Our 2026 policy priorities are ready to go! Together with our LeadingAge membership, we advocate on the Hill and with the Trump administration to advance our top goals for senior housing and other aging services settings. Onward!
Reminder: LeadingAge Housing Network and Workgroups Resume for 2026! LeadingAge's affordable housing policy team has re-restarted our network and discussion groups. More information is available here.
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