HUD released on October 22 a Final Report: Evaluation of HUD’s Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD). The report has a chapter on the impact on residents of converting their public housing to one of…
The House Financial Services Committee held a full committee hearing, “The End of Affordable Housing? A Review of the Trump Administration’s Plans to Change Housing Finance in America,” on October 22…
Representative Steve Stivers (R-OH) was named ranking member of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development, and Insurance on October 17. The Subcommittee is…
Several states and many localities will hold elections on November 5. It’s time to get out the vote! NLIHC’s nonpartisan voter and candidate engagement project, Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020, focuses on…
NLIHC’s Housing Policy Forum 2020: Ending Homelessness and Housing Poverty will take place in Washington, DC, March 25-27, 2020, at the Washington Court Hotel. Register for the Forum today at: https…
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 10/21…
The Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Building, and Emergency Management of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee held a hearing on federal disaster relief efforts on…
NLIHC and the Fair Share Housing Center of New Jersey released on October 25 Fixing America’s Broken Disaster Housing Recovery System: Part 1: Barriers to a Complete and Equitable Recovery…
The House of Representatives may vote in November on bipartisan legislation to permanently authorize HUD’s Community Development Block Grant–Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program. The bill includes key…
The Senate began consideration on October 22 of a four-bill spending package for fiscal year (FY) 2020 that includes funding for affordable housing and community development programs at HUD and the U…
Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Todd Young (R-IN) introduced the “Reforming Disaster Recovery Act of 2019” in the Senate on July 26. The legislation, S. 2301, is a companion to a House bill of the…
