USDA Rural Development Multi-Family Housing Programs

USDA Rural Development Multi-Family Housing Programs is a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture that funds affordable rural rental housing through loans, loan guarantees, grants, and rental assistance. The program supports property owners developing or rehabilitating housing for low-income, elderly, disabled individuals, and domestic farm laborers in eligible rural areas.

Key components include direct multifamily loans, loan guarantees through private lenders, on-farm labor housing financing, tenant voucher protections, and nonprofit transfer technical assistance grants for housing preservation. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations, public housing authorities, and private property owners serving very low- to moderate-income rural residents.

Multifamily Housing revitalizes and supports over 14,000 properties in USDA’s rural rental portfolio. Multifamily Housing assists rural property owners through loans, loan guarantees, and grants to develop and rehabilitate properties for low-income, elderly, domestic farm laborers, disabled individuals, and their families.

Multifamily Housing subsidizes rents for eligible low-income tenants who cannot afford to pay their full rent by providing vouchers to the owners of its direct and farm labor housing loan properties. When a direct loan ends before its initial term, Multifamily Housing can protect eligible tenants who otherwise may face hardship if they cannot find other affordable housing.

Multifamily Housing also restructures loans for existing rural rental and off-farm labor housing properties, helping owners maintain sufficient reserve funds to make necessary major repairs and improvements throughout the lifetime of these properties.

### Multifamily Housing Direct Loans This program provides competitive financing for affordable multi-family rental housing for low-income, elderly, or disabled individuals and families in eligible rural areas.

### Multifamily Housing Loan Guarantees The program works with qualified private-sector lenders to provide financing to qualified borrowers to increase the supply of affordable rental housing for low- and moderate-income individuals and families in eligible rural areas and towns.

### On-Farm Labor Housing Loans This program provides affordable financing to develop or rehabilitate affordable rental housing for very-low income domestic, migrant, and seasonal farm laborers. ### Multifamily Tenant Voucher Program This program provides vouchers to protect eligible tenants in Multifamily Direct Loan properties who may face hardship when a final loan payment is made on the property.

### Multifamily Housing Nonprofit Transfer Technical Assistance Grants USDA Rural Development awards grants to eligible nonprofit organizations and public housing authorities (PHAs) to provide technical assistance (TA) and other services to enable affordable housing preservation through the transfer of Multifamily Housing Direct Loan properties from current owners to nonprofits or PHAs.

### Section 521 Stand-Alone Rental Assistance Decoupling Rental Assistance allows eligible USDA Rural Development Multifamily Housing (MFH) direct loan borrowers to continue receiving long-term rental assistance in exchange for agreeing to preserve and operate their multifamily property as affordable rural housing. Multifamily Housing has produced a series of resources for our stakeholders, owners, managers, and tenants.

These resource links include MFH tools, announcements, and stakeholder training opportunities. We encourage you to contact us if you have any questions or if you desire further information or assistance.

## Multifamily Housing Contacts Our Field Operations Division maintains local relationships through regionally organized servicing teams and handles all day-today servicing of Multifamily housing properties to ensure that tenants have safe and affordable housing.

The four regions and the contact information for each Regional Director follows: Becki Meyer, Regional Director AK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NM, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY Eric Siebens, Regional Director IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI Byron Waters, Regional Director AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, OK, PR, SC, TN, TX, VI Donna O'Brien, Regional Director CT, DE, MA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VA, VT, WV If you need information on a loan transaction currently in process, or have questions on a new transaction, our Production & Preservation Division (PPD) processes, underwrites, and closes all multifamily direct, preservation, and guaranteed loan transactions.

PPD will support all the Multifamily Housing Programs, including 515, 538, Multifamily Preservation and Revitalization (MPR), prepayments, and preservation efforts. This division will also oversee Notice of Solicitation of Applications (NOSA) drafting and administration efforts for Farm Labor Housing, Housing Preservation Grants, MPR, technical assistance, and 515.

The email contact information for the Production & Preservation Division follows: ### Processing and Report Review Branch 1 CT, DE, IA, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, SD, VA, VT, WI, WV ### Processing and Report Review Branch 2 AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, HI, ID, KY, LA, MS, MT, NC, NM, NV, OK, OR, PR, SC, TN, TX, UT, VI, WA, WY ## Multifamily Housing Mailing Addresses For general correspondence to Multifamily Housing, that does not contain financial documents for a new or existing Multifamily Housing loan, please use the mailing address: Attn: Multifamily Housing Multifamily Housing lenders, borrowers, or management agents who need to send correspondence containing financial documents (such as a loan agreement, loan transfer, restrictive use covenant, or re-amortization) for a new or existing Multifamily Housing loan, please use the USPS, Fed Ex, or UPS mailing address: * Mail sent via the United States Postal Service: Attn: Multifamily Housing * Mail sent via FedEx or UPS: Attn: Matthew Gibson, 314-457-4559 (MFH) Suite 1701; Mail Stop: 2331