The National LGBTQ Task Force announced on November 14 that it is joining the Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector affordable homes campaign Steering Committee. The National LGBTQ Task Force,…
Submit applications or nominations for the 2020 Annual Organizing Awards today! Two awards are given each year, usually with one award recognizing statewide or regional achievements and another…
HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) recently added two more chapters to its ongoing revision of the “Housing Choice Voucher Program Guidebook.” PIH also revised a previously updated…
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 11/18…
The House of Representatives approved the “Reforming Disaster Recovery Act of 2019” (H.R. 3702) on November 18 by a vote of 290-118. The bi-partisan bill is supported by NLIHC and its Disaster…
The president on November 21 signed a stopgap funding measure, known as a continuing resolution (CR), that will fund the government through December 20. This is the second CR of fiscal year 2020 (…
The Trump administration asked Matthew Doherty to leave his position as executive director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) on November 14. Founded in 1987, USICH…
The House passed both the “Tribal Access to Homeless Assistance Grants Act of 2019” (H.R. 4029) and the “Fostering Stable Housing Opportunities Act of 2019” (H.R. 4300) by voice vote on November 18.…
Three bills recently introduced in Congress would tighten the statute that created Opportunity Zones (OZs). The three combined would limit the OZ tax benefit associated with any housing projects to…
The Senate Banking Committee on November 20 held a hearing for several individuals nominated for positions at HUD: Brian D. Montgomery for deputy secretary (see Memo 10/11), David C. Woll,…
Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) introduced on November 20 the “Homes for All Act” that would invest $1 trillion to create 9.5 million new public housing apartments and 2.5 million deeply affordable…
House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) introduced on November 21, the “Housing is Infrastructure Act of 2019” (H.R.5187) to invest more…
