Lawmakers in Washington, D.C. spent the last week of February scrambling unsuccessfully to avoid sequestration. On March 1 at 8:31 pm President Barack Obama signed the executive order requiring…
Congress spent another week juggling the major fiscal challenges of finalizing FY13 spending, addressing sequestration, and developing an FY14 budget, but made little progress due to lack of regular…
The House of Representatives approved the Senate-passed Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) reauthorization bill, S. 47, on February 28. The measure, which passed the Senate on February 12 (see Memo, 2…
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) was the focus of a Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs hearing on February 28. Dubbed the second part of a hearing held by the committee in…
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises will hold a hearing, “Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: How Government Housing Policy Failed Homeowners and…
Bill on Homeless Veteran Definition ReintroducedSenator Mark Begich (D-AK) introduced S. 287, legislation to expand the definition of homelessness for veterans, on February 12. This is a…
HUD is now expected to release the full version of its Worst Case Housing Needs 2011 Report to Congress in April. HUD issued an executive summary of this report on February 22 (see Memo, 2/22), which…
HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) now has a mobile application (app) for submitting a housing discrimination complaint. The app provides information about housing rights and…
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued Information Memorandum (IM) TANF-ACF-IM-2013-01 on February 20, which urges jurisdictions administering Temporary Assistance for Needy Family…
As Connecticut braces for sequestration, Governor Dannel Malloy (D) proposed that the State’s biennial budget include an additional $217.5 million for the creation and renovation of affordable and…
NLIHC’s latest Housing Spotlight provides new evidence of the deepening housing shortage nationwide. In 2011, the number of extremely low income (ELI) renter households, with incomes at or below 30%…
NLIHC’s Policy Fact Sheets have been updated for March. Fact sheets provide the latest summaries of a variety of issues, including those on appropriations, the National Housing Trust Fund, vouchers,…
