On October 21, several national housing organizations committed to advancing areas of agreement from previous housing assistance reform bills sent a letter to House and Senate appropriators, urging them to include eleven key provisions in the final FY14 appropriations bill. The letter asserts that “reforms will result in significant savings while providing regulatory flexibility and program efficiencies. According the Congressional Budget Office, the reforms we seek would reduce program costs by more than $3 billion over five years.” Attached to the letter is the list of eleven reforms. The list includes improving policies related to the project-basing of vouchers, provisions that would make the voucher program admissions process fairer and more effective at serving homeless applicants by limiting screening to criteria related to suitability as a tenant, and an agreement to expand the moving to work demonstration in a way that seeks to protect tenants and housing resources in ways the current demonstration does not. Read the letter at: http://bit.ly/HlMaDt