The Senate voted 92-6 today, August 1, to approve its fiscal year (FY) 2019 Transportation-HUD (THUD) spending bill, which provides robust funding for affordable housing and community development…
Bill funds the federal government through the end of next April. Congress must pass it by the end of the week to avert a government shutdown.
Last night, the House of Representatives released the…
The following is a review of additional housing recovery developments related to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, and the California wildfires since last week’s Memo to Members and Partners…
Senators Bill Nelson (D-FL), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Robert Casey (D-PA) sent a letter to the secretaries of the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Homeland…
The following is a review of additional housing recovery developments related to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, and the California wildfires since last week’s Memo to Members and Partners…
Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-USVI), members of the House Oversight Committee, sent a letter urging Committee Chair Trey Gowdy (R-SC) to subpoena…
Last week, HUD published the long-awaited Federal Register notice that provides direction to Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands pertaining to their allocations of the $7.4 billion…
Prior to the passage of a disaster relief package on February 9, more than 340 national, state, and local members of the Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition (DHRC) issued a letter to…
Congress passed on February 9 a disaster relief package signed into law by President Trump as part of a larger budget bill that lifted the Budget Control Act spending caps on defense and domestic…
The tax exemption for private activity bonds (PAB) survived the House and Senate Tax Reform bills. The legislation preserves the 9% and 4% Low Income Housing Tax Credit (Housing Credit)—…
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The conference committee created to resolve differences between the House and Senate bills met today. The DHRC sent a letter to the conference committee and all other congressional…
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Calls are needed in advance of Wednesday’s Conference Committee on tax reform legislation. The NLIHC delivered a letter to members of the conference committee. It raises…
