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Multifamily Housing assists rural property owners through loans, loan guarantees, and grants that enable owners to develop and rehabilitate properties for low-income, elderly, and disabled individuals and families as well as domestic farm laborers.Multifamily Housing works with the owners of its direct and farm labor housing loan properties to subsidize rents for low-income tenants who cannot afford to pay their full rent. Additionally, when a direct loan ends before its initial term, Multifamily Housing provides vouchers to protect eligible tenants who otherwise may face hardship if they cannot find other affordable housing.Multifamily Housing utilizes a variety of tools to revitalize and preserve the physical and financial health of more than 14,000 properties currently in USDA’s rural rental portfolio. For example, restructuring loans for existing rural rental housing and off-farm labor housing properties allows them to maintain sufficient reserve funds to make necessary major repairs and improvements throughout the lifetime of these properties.

## Our Programs

### 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.

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### 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.

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### Off-Farm Labor Direct Loans & Grants

This program provides affordable financing to develop housing for year-round and migrant or seasonal domestic farm laborers.

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### 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.

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### Multifamily Housing Preservation & Revitalization (MPR)

This program restructures loans for existing Rural Rental Housing and Off-Farm Labor Housing projects to help improve and preserve the availability of safe affordable rental housing for low income residents.

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### Multifamily Housing Rental Assistance Program

This program provides payments to owners of USDA-financed Rural Rental Housing or Farm Labor Housing projects on behalf of low-income tenants unable to pay their full rent.

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### Multifamily Tenant Voucher Program

This program provides vouchers to protect eligible tenants in Multifamily Direct Loan properties who may face hardship when the loan on the property is prepaid, or the property is foreclosed.

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### 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.

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### Off-Farm Labor Housing Technical Assistance Grants

USDA Rural Development awards grants to nonprofit organizations to provide technical assistance to applicants for Farm Labor Housing (FLH) loans and grants.

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## Tools and Resources 

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.

MFH Proposed Budget training for Stakeholders

FY23 MFH Income Limits effective 7/13/2023

Best Practices regarding Denial of Admission in USDA MFH Programs

MFH program Treatment of Financial Benefits from Solar Programs Participation

MFH Notification of Administrators Exception – HOTMA

## 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:

### Western Region

Becki Meyer, Regional DirectorMFHFODWest@usda.govAK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NM, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY

### Midwest Region

Eric Siebens, Regional DirectorMFHFODMidwest@usda.govIA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI

### Southern Region

Byron Waters, Regional DirectorMFHFODSouth@usda.govAL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, OK, PR, SC, TN, TX, VI

### Northeast Region

Donna O'Brien, Regional DirectorMFHFODNortheast@usda.govCT, 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

MFHprocessing1@usda.govCT, 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

MFHprocessing2@usda.govAK, 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

## Quick Links

                                          - Multifamily Housing Appraisal Assignment Guidance
                                          - Access the  Multifamily Housing Construction Monitoring Checklists
                                          - Search for an  affordable rural rental apartment  near you.
                                          - Find the  loan specialist  assigned to a MFH property.
                                          - External  Management Interactive Network Connection  (MINC, requires login credentials).
                                          - Determine if a  specific location is eligible  for MFH programs.
                                          - Publicly available  datasets  on MFH’s portfolio.
                                          - Need assistance regarding your USDA Voucher, email  RDVoucher@usda.gov .
                                          - Questions about your current home mortgage, buying or building a home, or assistance with a home repair, please see USDA’s  Single-Family Housing programs
                                          - Doing Business With RD  Contacts and Resource Guide

Multifamily Housing Organizational Structure

### **For all other questions or general inquiries, please contact Multifamily Housing at 800-292-8293 or MultifamilyHousing@usda.gov**

## Email Updates

An archive of previously released email bulletins and program updates are outlined below. Stay connected with the latest information by subscribing to our emails.