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FHA insures mortgage loans to facilitate the construction, substantial rehabilitation, purchase and refinancing of multifamily housing under the National Housing Act and nursing homes intermediate care facilities board and care homes and assisted-living facilities (collectively residential healthcare facilities) under section 232 of the National Housing Act (the Section 232 program). Through this final rule, HUD updates and streamlines the Section 232 program regulations that govern the financing of the purchase and installation of fire safety equipment in the insured healthcare facilities which have not been substantially updated in over 20 years.  These changes will give HUD flexibility in raising or lowering fees and for residential healthcare facilities, streamline the loan application process by eliminating unnecessary requirements, conforming needed requirements to current industry practices, and allowing for HUD to centralize the loan application process.