The NLIHC 2013 Housing Policy Conference and Lobby Day, United for Action, is just one week away and limited opportunities to register still remain. Online registration will close on March 11. Mailed…
Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-WA) convened a hearing on March 5 entitled, “Reducing the Deficit by Eliminating Wasteful Spending in the Tax Code.” The hearing was about the need…
President Barack Obama signed the executive order implementing sequestration March 1 , and in the days following , several public housing agencies (PHAs) announced the first impacts of sequestration…
With sequestration going into effect on March 1, Congress pivoted to work on FY13 funding. On March 6, the House passed a continuing resolution that would provide funding for federal agencies for the…
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises held a hearing, “Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: How Government Housing Policy Failed Homeowners and…
A new study from the Institute on Assets and Social Policy at Brandeis University finds that the gap in wealth between white and African-American households has tripled over the past 25 years. The…
On March 4, Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) introduced S. 437 to authorize the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI) program, with a $350 million annual appropriation. The bill is a reintroduction of…
Ensuring Proper Community Investments Act, H.R. 971Representatives Erik Paulsen (R-MN) and Patrick McHenry (R-NC) introduced legislation on March 5 to prohibit the sale or trade of Community…
The full House Committee on Financial Services will hold a March 19 hearing on the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the independent regulator of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan…
The Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at New York University (NYU) and the Moelis Institute for Affordable Housing Policy will hold a policy breakfast, “Rethinking Rehousing: The…
The Arkansas Coalition of Housing and Neighborhood Growth for Empowerment (ACHANGE), an NLIHC state coalition partner, recently issued A Review of Affordable Housing in Arkansas: The Supply, the Need…
Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing at HUD: A First Term Report Card Part II provides a review of HUD’s enforcement of the affirmatively further fair housing (AFFH) obligation during the first term…
