The J. Ronald Terwilliger Foundation for Housing America’s Families has published a report, “How Federal Dollars are Spent: The Case for New Priorities,” calling for reforms to the mortgage interest…
Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) introduced a bill on July 19 that would allow residents living in manufactured home communities to enjoy more stability without the threat of eviction. The Senate…
The Senate will begin its work on its Transportation-HUD (THUD) spending bill this week. The Senate THUD Appropriations Subcommittee is scheduled to debate its FY18 spending bill on Tuesday, July 25…
The House Appropriations Committee moved forward with its FY18 spending bill for affordable housing and community development programs on July 17. NLIHC and others estimate the bill would result in…
Legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act took twists and turns over the last week and its future remains uncertain. Senate Republican leaders and the White House are continuing to…
At the Senate Banking Committee’s hearing on the nominations of Paul Compton to be HUD general counsel, Anna Maria Farias to be HUD assistant secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, and…
The full Senate Appropriations Committee voted to approve its draft FY18 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) spending bill, including funding for Rural Housing programs, on July 20. While the text…
HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) published a notice in the Federal Register on July 14 making technical corrections to a notice published on January 18 (see Memo, 1/23) that…
HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule is facing renewed threats from conservative members of Congress and the prospect of being weakened by HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson.
A group of…
The House Budget Committee approved its FY18 budget and tax reform blueprint on July 19 along a party-line vote. If approved by Congress, the plan would dramatically re-write federal priorities over…
HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) posted a guidebook titled Implementing HUD’s Smoke-Free Policy in Public Housing. The purpose of the guidebook is to help public housing agencies (PHAs…
HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing Programs is offering two training webcasts about Notice H 2017-05, guidance it recently issued regarding the final rule implementing the Violence Against Women…
