On November 23, 2020, Rural Development (RD) released the following information:

On October 11, 2020, RD’s Office of Multifamily Housing finalized its structural realignment which, in some cases, redistributed the existing portfolio to a servicing Specialist within their new Field Operations Division. If you are looking for the servicing Specialist for a specific property, you will find a complete and sortable list here: https://www.sc.egov.usda.gov/data/MFH.html

Our Field Operations Division maintains local relationships through regionally organized servicing teams and handles all day-today servicing of Multifamily housing properties to ensure that tenants have safe and affordable housing.

The four regions and the contact information for each Regional Director follows:

• Western Region: Becki Meyer, Regional Director
  Becki.meyer@usda.gov
  (AK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NM, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY)

• Southern Region: Byron Waters, Regional Director
  Byron.waters@usda.gov
  (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, OK, PR, SC, TN, TX, VI)

• Midwest Region: Karissa Stiers, Regional Director
  Karissa.stiers@usda.gov
  (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)

• Northeast Region: Laurie Warzinski, Regional Director
  Laurie.warzinski@usda.gov
  (CT, DE, MA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VA, VT, WV)

If you need information on a loan transaction currently in process, or have questions on a new transaction, RD’s Production & Preservation Division (PPD) processes, underwrites, and closes all multifamily direct, preservation, and guaranteed loan transactions. PPD will support all the Multifamily Housing Programs, including 515, 538, Multifamily Preservation and Revitalization (MPR), prepayments, and preservation efforts. This division will also oversee Notice of Solicitation of Applications (NOSA) drafting and administration efforts for Farm Labor Housing, Housing Preservation Grants, MPR, technical assistance, and 515.

The email contact information for the Production & Preservation Division follows:

• Processing and Report Review Branch 1, MFHprocessing1@usda.gov
  (CT, DE, IA, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, SD, VA, VT, WI, WV)

• Processing and Report Review Branch 2, MFHprocessing2@usda.gov
  (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, HI, ID, KY, LA, MT, MS, NC, NM, NV, OK, OR, PR, SC, TN, TX, UT, VI, WA, WY)