After months of advocacy by LeadingAge members, the Senate HUD appropriations committee has included eligibility for HUD’s Rental Assistance Demonstration to include Project Rental Assistance Contracts (PRACs) and provided $4 million to assist in these conversions in its fiscal year 2017 bill. This is great news and the first step in what will be a long fiscal year 2017 appropriations season. There are 2,900 Section 202 communities with PRACs; many of them could decide that participating in RAD will help them preserve their affordable properties. For more information about the bill, go here.