In this July Newsletter, I am still hopeful that HUD will announce SOON that they have posted the Standards in the Federal Register for public review and commentary.\u00a0 Unfortunately, we\u2019re still waiting.<\/p>\n
They did, however, release an updated Final Rule \u2013 Administrative Notice which can be found here: https:\/\/www.hud.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/PIH\/documents\/PIH-2026-18.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n Top 10 Takeaways from the Updated Final Rule:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n In other words, if you have failed inspection under HQS, you must re-inspect the unit (or verify corrections) under the HQS guidelines, even if you have adopted NSPIRE.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n **Previously approved variations under HQS MUST BE re-approved!**<\/strong><\/p>\n Requests for variations must <\/em><\/strong>include the following:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Please reach out to me for consulting, Pre-NSPIRE inspections, training, appeals, or if you just have a question!<\/strong><\/p>\n Resources<\/strong> In this July Newsletter, I am still hopeful that HUD will announce SOON that they have posted the Standards in the Federal Register for public review and commentary.\u00a0 Unfortunately, we\u2019re still waiting. They did, however, release an updated Final Rule \u2013 Administrative Notice which can be found here: https:\/\/www.hud.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/PIH\/documents\/PIH-2026-18.pdf Top 10 Takeaways from the Updated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"blog-category":[130],"class_list":["post-6657","blog_post","type-blog_post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","blog-category-hud-assist"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c4n6.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_post\/6657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c4n6.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c4n6.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4n6.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4n6.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4n6.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c4n6.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4n6.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6657"},{"taxonomy":"blog-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4n6.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog-category?post=6657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\nHUD has PDFs (videos are currently down) on how to appeal and how to close out H&S deficiencies here:
\nNSPIRE Toolkit<\/a>
\n**Remember, if you will be appealing something that was cited, <\/strong>
\nyour \u201cdefect mitigation in 24 hours\u201d is that you are appealing\u2026not that you fixed it<\/u>!**<\/strong>
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