National Housing Trust Fund

House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) introduced on November 21, the “Housing is Infrastructure Act of 2019” (H.R.5187) to invest more…

Memo: Important Housing Votes, Hearings, Tweetstorm and Webinar This Week!

Representative Yvette Clarke (D-NY) introduced the “Affordable Housing and Area Median Income Fairness Act of 2019” (H.R.4984) on November 5. Co-sponsors include Representatives Grace Meng (D-NY),…

Source: Lo, et al. (2019) National Longitudinal Land Use Survey, Urban Land Institute. Survey included 1,703 jurisdictions in 50 largest CBSAs.

Senator and presidential candidate Kamala Harris (D-CA) introduced the “Ending Homelessness Act of 2019” (S. 2613) on October 16. Co-sponsored by Senators Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-…

Memo: Sign-on Deadline, Tweetstorm, New Housing Bills and More

Memo: Stopgap Spending Bill, CA Delegation Letter to Trump, Advocates’ Letters on HTF and CMF, and More

Memo: Another HUD Attack on Fair Housing, New Podcast with NY Times Reporter Emily Badger, and More

The final biennial budget passed by the Ohio Legislature on July 17 includes $5 million in new funding for the Ohio Housing Trust Fund. The $2.5 million for each year of the biennial falls short of…

Memo: Submit Comments on Mixed-Status Immigration Rule, Upcoming Week of Action, and More

HUD formally published the 2019 national Housing Trust Fund allocations for the states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. territories on May 17. As previously reported, $248 million is available (see Memo, 2…

Trump Admin Proposes Rule to Evict Undocumented Immigrants from Subsidized Housing, New HTF Allocations, and More