House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) delivered a speech on his vision for tax reform at the 2017 National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) Summit on June 20. His remarks touched on the potential…
Republican leaders of the House Budget Committee hope to vote on a FY18 budget resolution this week, even as House GOP members continue to disagree on overall fiscal policy. The Republican proposal…
Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), a cofounder of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, introduced a bill that would consolidate nearly all federal affordable housing programs into state block grants…
The Trump administration nominated Anna Maria Farias to serve as HUD’s assistant secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO). Ms. Farias is the chair of the Board of Regents at Texas…
HUD published the official amounts of national Housing Trust Fund (HTF) allocations to states for FY17 in the Federal Register on June 23. Allocations were posted earlier on HUD’s website (see Memo,…
Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies released its annual State of the Nation’s Housing report on June 16. The report shows that 37% of American households - more than 43 million households —…
Senate Republicans released their version of the American Health Care Act, a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, on June 22. The Senate is expected to vote as early as this week on…
The Senate Committee on Banking will hold a hearing on June 29 to discuss principles of housing finance reform. Committee members will hear testimony from three witnesses:
David H. Stevens,…
The National Multifamily Housing Council and the National Apartment Association released U.S. Apartment Demand – A Forward Look, which estimates the future national demand for rental housing through…
Affordable housing and community development advocates from Delaware are working to gain passage of two bills designed to strengthen local governments’ ability to counter blight in their communities…
The latest attempt in a two-year effort to implement a $15 million senior housing bond package was narrowly defeated in the Maine state legislature on June 8. The bond would leverage an additional $…
Source: Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. (2017). The State of the Nation’s Housing. Cambridge, MA: Author. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/1kKwpkW
