Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Committee on Financial Services, introduced the “Public Housing Tenant Protection and Reinvestment Act of 2017” on June 29. The bill seeks…
NLIHC submitted comments regarding HUD’s draft Operations Notice for Expansion of the Moving to Work (MTW) Demonstration Program (see Memo, 5/8). NLIHC conveyed strong opposition to the inclusion of…
Voice of the People and the University of Maryland’s Program for Public Consultation conducted a survey to gauge the attitudes of Americans toward federal poverty programs – including public housing…
HUD issued a notice in the Federal Register on May 4 establishing a second opportunity to comment on a draft Operations Notice for the expansion of the Moving to Work (MTW) demonstration published on…
HUD published Notice PIH-2017-03 providing guidance to public housing agencies (PHAs) regarding instituting and enforcing smoke-free policies in public housing, as required by a final rule issued on…
HUD conducted a webinar on November 17 highlighting key features of Notice H 2016-17/PIH 2016-17 providing guidance on fair housing and civil rights and on resident relocation statutory and…
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit considered legislative proposals to help consumers, particularly those with low incomes, gain more access to…
HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research issued an interim evaluation of the Rental Assistance Demonstration Program (RAD). Because the demonstration is still in its early stages, the…
The next two-day meeting of the Moving to Work (MTW) Research Advisory Committee (see Memo, 7/18) will take place on Thursday, September 1 from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm ET and Friday September 2, from 8:00…
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the “Welfare Reform and Upward Mobility Act” (S. 3047) that would eliminate nearly all federal affordable housing programs by consolidating them into a state block…
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance compared the affordable housing models of the United States and the United Kingdom during a hearing on May 12. Both countries have…
Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) introduced H.R. 5137, “The Moving to Work Reformation and Expansion Act of 2016,” on April 29. The bill would remove the cap on the number of public housing…
