For the third time in two weeks, the House failed to pass an aid package for communities impacted by recent disasters, leaving survivors without the assistance they need to recover.
Though the…
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 5/28…
HUD Secretary Ben Carson testified on May 21 at a House Financial Services Committee oversight hearing. Secretary Carson was pressed by lawmakers on HUD’s recent actions to roll back fair housing…
After months of delays, the timeline for passage of a disaster aid package for communities impacted by recent disasters has been pushed back.
While the Senate approved the $19.1 billion disaster…
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) together with 10 of their Senate and House colleagues reintroduced the "Housing Survivors of Major Disasters Act of 2019" (…
Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) sent a letter on May 22 to Acting FEMA Administrator Peter Gaynor urging his agency to take further action to address the housing needs of Camp Fire survivors. Although…
NLIHC is partnering with Working Films — a production company that works with grassroots groups and non-profit organizations to visually enhance their programs — to curate a compilation of short…
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 5/20…
HUD released on May 14 allocations of Community Development Block Grant–Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funding for areas impacted by the 2018 disasters. These awards come from money Congress…
