President Trump signed an executive order on June 25 establishing a White House Council on Eliminating Barriers to Affordable Housing Development to identify and remove obstacles that impede the…
Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) and 11 other Democratic senators introduced on June 27 the “Ensuring Equal Access to Shelter Act” (S. 2007) that would block a HUD proposed rule to weaken the enforcement…
A bipartisan group of policymakers – including Senators Todd Young (R-IN) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Representatives Joe Neguse (D-CO), Don Beyer (D-VA), and Jackie Walorski (R-IN) – introduced…
Senator Todd Young (R-IN) introduced on June 20 the “Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY) Act” (S. 1919), which aims to increase transparency and encourage affordable housing development in more communities by…
Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) on June 26 reintroduced the “Fair Housing Improvement Act of 2019” (S. 1986) which would prohibit housing discrimination based on source of income, veteran status, and…
The House Financial Services Committee approved on June 26 legislation introduced by Representative Chuy Garcia (D-IL) to protect residents of federally assisted housing from carbon monoxide…
Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020, NLIHC’s non-partisan candidate and voter engagement project, continues to monitor all 2020 presidential candidates’ statements and proposals on affordable housing and the…
The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University (JCHS) released the State of the Nation’s Housing Report on June 24. The report’s authors found a continued shortage of affordable housing…
The House passed on June 25 a five-bill spending package for FY20 that includes funding and provisions that would affect disaster housing recovery efforts.
The spending package created a Homeless…
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 6/24…
