Senators Bob Corker (R-TN) and Mark Warner (D-VA) are expected to introduce housing finance reform legislation sometime during the week of June 24. The latest draft of the legislation, reviewed by…
The Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on Thursday, June 27 at which the Committee will consider the nomination of Representative Mel Watt (D-NC) to be the next…
The United for Homes campaign will hold its monthly conference call for campaign endorsers on Wednesday, June 26 at 2 pm EST. The purpose of the call is to report the latest developments in the…
On June 19, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) marked up and passed its FY14 appropriations bill. The bill underfunds…
The Senate Committee on Appropriations set the 302(b) allocations for its 12 subcommittees on June 20, providing substantially higher levels of funding for the Transportation, Housing and Urban…
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance will hold a hearing, “Evaluating How HUD’s Moving-to-Work Program Benefits Public and Assisted Housing Residents,” on June 26 (see…
HUD’s fourth study on the state of housing discrimination against racial and ethnic minorities, released on June 11, reveals that while blatant acts of discrimination among real estate agents and…
The House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing on June 12, “Beyond GSEs: Examples of Successful Housing Finance Models without Explicit Government Guarantees.” Witnesses and Representatives…
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) will mark up its FY14 appropriations bill on June 19 at 11am ET in room 2358-A of the House Rayburn…
The House Committee on Appropriations marked up its FY14 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies spending bill on June 13 with little focus on Rural Housing…
The Senate is expected to move forward with its appropriations work the week of June 17. The Senate Committee on Appropriations is expected to release its 302(b) subcommittee allocations early in the…
Even as they continue work on appropriations, the House and Senate have still not agreed to an overall spending amount for FY14, which will result in significant differences between the subcommittee…
