Two tropical storms crossed over parts of the United States this past week. Remains of Tropical Storm Imelda hit Southeast Texas, dumping large amounts of rain on the region and claiming five lives.…
The following is a review of additional disaster housing recovery developments since the last edition of Memo to Members and Partners (for the article in the previous Memo, see 9/23…
A bicameral group of 45 Democratic members of the California congressional delegation sent a letter on September 19 to President Donald Trump criticizing his recent threats to further criminalize…
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) unveiled “A Just Society,” an ambitious anti-poverty proposal, on September 25. The proposal aims to improve federal anti-poverty interventions through…
The 2020 presidential candidates are making affordable housing a central part of their campaigns as never before. In just the last week:
Senator Warren toured the Golfview Mobile Home Court in…
CommunityVotes, a New York state-based non-profit that provides support to community-based service organizations to help them engage citizens who traditionally do not exercise their right to vote,…
The next debates for leading democratic candidates take place on October 15 in Ohio. We have reopened the Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020 sign-on letter to debate moderators; new organizational signers…
The first episode of the 15-month webinar and podcast series “Our Homes, Our Votes 2020: Third Thursdays at Three” is now available at www.ourhomes-ourvotes.org/webinars. The webinar originally…
HUD published in the Federal Register on September 25 its list of the 2020 Difficult Development Areas (DDAs) and Qualified Census Tracts (QCTs), which are used in the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (…
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released two reports describing multiple deficiencies in federal disaster response. The first report found that FEMA and the American Red Cross failed to…
A new study published in Health Affairs, “Can Medicaid Expansion Prevent Housing Evictions?,” found that early Medicaid expansion in California was associated with an average reduction of 24.5 fewer…
A report published by the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, “Measuring Fidelity to HUD’s Small Area Fair Market Rents (SAFMRs) Rule: Lessons from First Year Implementation,” evaluates the…
