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Housing Finance seeks two FTEs and flagged $13.5M eviction‑prevention package moved from HHS
Summary
The House appropriations subcommittee heard the Housing Finance Agency’s request for additional staff and a proposal to administer $13.5 million in state housing assistance — $10 million for at‑risk households and $3.5 million for eviction prevention — which had been removed from HHS’s budget and proposed to be moved to HFA.
The House Appropriations Government Operations division heard from the North Dakota Housing Finance Agency (HFA) about FTE requests and a proposed $13.5 million housing assistance package that the House chair asked be moved into HFA’s budget from Health and Human Services.
David Floyd, executive director of HFA, said the agency requested five FTEs in the House plan (the Senate included three). He told the committee most of HFA’s operating work is funded by agency revenues — HFA’s requested positions (except one homeless program manager tied to the transferred homeless grant) would be funded from agency program revenue, not general fund dollars. Floyd described a workload increase: loan servicing volume has grown in recent years and HFA relies on in‑house servicing staff and legacy…
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