Thursday mix: FEMA, RD regs, and more

- FEMA trailers may be headed for New Orleans public housing properties.

- In the California appellate case of Greystone Homes, Inc. v. Cake, a housing development under construction with the help and at the behest of a local redevelopment agency was found not to be a "public work" for purposes of the state prevailing wage law. Private parties paid all the demolition and construction costs, but the agency had agreed to pay for the land.

- Rural Development Administrative Notice 4128 addresses the enforcement of environmental requirements when developers start construction before they apply for Rural Development assistance.

- Rural Development Procedure Notice 393 re-releases the state-by-state list of authorized property management fees -- Attachment 3-G to the Rural Development Multi-Family Housing Asset Management Handbook -- just two weeks after the last revision in order to add a change in management fees for the state of Idaho. PN 393 also contains several technical-looking revisions to the Guaranteed Rural Rental Housing Origination and Servicing Handbook. CARH has background on the management fees' history and recent changes over here.