The House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on October 3 on sustainable housing finance. During the hearing, Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Melvin Watt updated the committee…
The House of Representatives passed by a vote of 219-206 a budget resolution on October 5 that proposes massive cuts to crucial safety net programs to pay for increases in defense spending and tax…
Five former public housing residents settled fair housing complaints they filed with HUD related to the privatization and redevelopment of their Hopewell, VA public housing complex under the Rental…
HUD’s Office of Recapitalization published two documents that lead owners of HUD-insured and/or assisted multifamily affordable rental properties through the process of developing a preservation…
A working paper by Vincent Reina and Ben Winter, Safety Net? The Utility of Vouchers When a Place-Based Rental Subsidy Ends, examines the use of Tenant Protection Vouchers (TPVs) for low income…
The National Housing Law Project and the Housing Justice Network are hosting their 2017 National Meeting October 12-14 in Washington DC. During the conference, top legal experts, advocate leaders,…
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The House of Representatives will vote this week on a budget resolution that…
The House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing on sustainable housing finance. During the hearing, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Melvin Watt will update the committee on the…
The Senate Budget Committee will debate and vote on its FY18 budget resolution October 4-5. The resolution, released on September 29, sets topline spending levels at $549 billion for defense and $516…
Republican leaders in the Senate canceled a vote on the Graham-Cassidy bill repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) after determining the bill did not have enough support to pass. The decision was…
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance held a hearing on September 27 examining HUD’s Family Self-Sufficiency program (FSS). While the FSS program was praised as a success…
HUD will release an updated version of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) data and mapping tool (AFFH-T) on September 29. AFFH-T Release 4.1 will include functionalities for public…
