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; 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
July 2, 2026
Judge Protects HUD Housing First Funding, For Now. On June 29, the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island ruled that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) wrongfully imposed new funding criteria for fiscal year (FY) 2025 homeless assistance awards that threatened housing for people served by programs like permanent supportive housing that follow a “housing first” model of initially addressing the housing needs of someone experiencing homelessness and subsequently adding on services and supports as appropriate. In a case watched by grantees of HUD’s Continuum of Care (CoC) homeless assistance program, including some LeadingAge members, the National Alliance to End Homelessness and others argued that HUD’s abrupt change in eligible uses of CoC funding away from the housing first model would risk the housing of 170,000 currently assisted people. The ruling only applies to HUD’s use of FY25 funds, but HUD has signaled similar constraints will be applied for the fiscal year 2026 funding provided by Congress. In a statement, the Alliance said it “remains deeply concerned with the Administration’s continued meddling in federal grantmaking, including similarly reckless changes in the FY 2026 CoC Program [Notice of Funding Opportunity], and is reviewing all legal and advocacy options available to appropriately protect communities that would be harmed by these and future actions.” LeadingAge has been tracking this issue; we are pleased with the ruling and share the Alliance’s concerns about the stability of future funding.
States File Lawsuit Opposing Medicaid Work Requirements, Seek Injunction. In a Massachusetts federal court on June 29, governors and attorneys general from 25 states filed a complaint alleging that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) overstepped in their interpretation of Medicaid Community Engagement Requirements. On June 1, CMS posted an Interim Final Rule (IFR) with comment period. The plaintiffs alleged that the IFR went significantly beyond the statute by requiring individuals seeking exclusion through “medical frailty” to demonstrate a connection between their serious or complex medical condition and their inability to meet the work requirement. The suit claims that CMS' rule did not contemplate the burden on the implementing states, was arbitrary and capricious in their expansion beyond the statute and called for “preliminary relief … to avert irreparable harm” by staying the IFR's challenged provisions and effective date of July 31 in the plaintiff states. LeadingAge will be watching the suit and related implications.
USCIS provides update on Haitian TPS work authorization. New USCIS guidance, issued July 1, 2026, confirms Haiti TPS Employment Authorization Documents remain valid until July 10, 2026, but frames this as limited relief pending lower court action following the Supreme Court's June 25 ruling. Members 1 employing Haiti TPS holders should continue to monitor this situation. For more information see our bulletin here.
U.S. Department of Education's Public Service Loan Forgiveness Rule Struck Down by Courts. On June 30, 2026, two federal district courts issued orders vacating the Department of Education's (ED) Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) final rule. Under the PSLF program, the Secretary of Education is required to forgive the remaining balance of federal student loans for borrowers who have made ten years of payments on their loans while working for a qualifying public service employer. On October 31, 2025, ED issued a final rule revising what organizations qualify as public service employers by excluding certain nonprofits from PSLF eligibility for engaging in what the Department defines to be “substantial illegal activity”—which it defines, for example, as aiding or abetting violations of federal immigration law, engaging in gender-affirming care, supporting terrorism, or engaging in a pattern of illegal discrimination. Following its issuance, the PSLF rule was subject to legal challenges in several federal district courts. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued orders on June 30, 2026, vacating the PSLF final rule. Both opinions cited the rule as being contrary to law and exceeding the Secretary’s statutory authority under the Higher Education Act. The rule was originally set to take effect on July 1, 2026.
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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