Memo to Members and Partners Takes One Week Hiatus
There will be no Memo to Members and Partners on Monday, April 1, due to the NLIHC Policy Forum March 27-29. Memo will return on April 8
Lawmakers are circulating “Dear Colleague” sign-on letters in support of funding for affordable housing and community development programs in FY20. NLIHC encourages advocates to reach out to their…
Full details of President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget request for HUD programs was released on Monday, March 18, expanding on the Budget in Brief released on March 11 (see Memo, 3/11). The…
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reintroduced on March 13 an ambitious proposal, the “American Housing and Economic Mobility Act,” to address the nation’s dire shortage of affordable housing. The bill…
Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) introduced the “Safe Housing for Families Act” (S. 755) on March 12. The legislation would require that HUD provide carbon monoxide detectors in HUD-assisted housing…
The House Financial Services Committee will vote on the “Ending Homelessness Act,” introduced by Committee Chair Maxine Waters (D-CA). The legislation is a comprehensive plan to ensure the lowest-…
The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee will hold a two-part hearing on the Chair Mike Crapo’s (R-ID) housing reform outline. The first part of the hearing will take place on March 26…
A study, the Key Findings Report: 2019 County Health Rankings, by County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (CHR&R), shows that severe housing cost burdens, spending 50% or more of incomes for rent…
On behalf of the Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition (DHRC) of more than 800 national, state, and local organizations, NLIHC submitted a statement for the record for the March 13 hearing, “Improving…
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing, “The Administration of Disaster Recovery Funds in the Wake of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria,” on…
The following is a review of disaster housing recovery developments since the last edition of Memo to Members and Partners (for the article in the previous Memo, see 3/18).
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