Several trade groups are urging the FHA to adopt identical compliance aid language used in other federal agency regulations when allowing private flood coverage as an option for single-family insured loans.
The bill includes more than $10 billion in homeowner assistance funding. The vast majority of that would go toward helping borrowers pay their mortgages, property taxes, home insurance and utilities.
With Democrats in control of Congress, Sens. Jack Reed, Sherrod Brown and Patrick Leahy have reintroduced a 2020 bill with an eye toward including some of its language in the American Rescue Plan.