Senators Tina Smith (D-MN) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced the “Public Housing Fire Safety Act” (S.3090) on December 18. If enacted, the bill would create a $25 million competitive grant program…
NLIHC sent a letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) on December 20 expressing support for the provisions in the “Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019” (S.2843). The provisions…
House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters (D-CA) sent a letter to HUD Secretary Ben Carson urging him to immediately release FY19 funds for the Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP).…
President Trump signed two final spending packages for FY20 that avoid a government shutdown and provide funding for affordable housing and community development programs at HUD and USDA. Overall,…
NLIHC’s president and CEO Diane Yentel joined former HUD Secretary Julián Castro for an Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020 tour of Skid Row in Los Angeles on Wednesday, December 18. The tour was organized…
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), a 2020 presidential candidate, participated in an Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020 tour of the Arroyo, a new affordable housing development in Santa Monica, CA, on Thursday…
Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Todd Young (R-IN) introduced the “Family Stability and Opportunity Vouchers Act” on December 18. The bill would create an additional 500,000 housing vouchers…
The Opportunity Starts at Home campaign will host an event, “Broadening the Movement: Housing as a National Priority in 2020,” at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on January 16 from 1:00-2:…
A proposed Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule cleared the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on December 18. The proposed…
Disaster recovery advocates in Puerto Rico and around the country voiced concerns about the Puerto Rico Department of Housing’s (PRDOH’s) main recovery program in a statement released by Disaster…
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 12/16…
NLIHC’s Housing Policy Forum 2020: Ending Homelessness and Housing Poverty taking place in Washington, DC, March 25-27, 2020 will feature a session on “Mobilizing Against Attacks on Housing…