Funding for affordable housing, community development, and transportation programs is threatened. Contact Congress today and tell them to protect the federal spending needed to ensure families and…
Funding for affordable housing, community development, and transportation programs is threatened. Contact Congress today and tell them to protect the federal spending needed to ensure families and…
NLIHC recognizes outstanding achievement in state, local and resident organizing each year through its Organizing Award. Organizing Award nominees have engaged in unique campaigns, programs, and…
President Donald Trump is expected to unveil his budget proposal for FY18 on March 15 or 16, but early drafts obtained by the Washington Post and confirmed by multiple sources indicate that OMB…
The House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Transportation and Housing and Urban Development (THUD) held their Member's Day hearing on March 9, where representatives were invited to speak…
The House approved its FY17 defense spending bill by a vote of 371-48 on March 8. The House may now turn to an omnibus package that will include the remaining ten unfinished FY17 spending bills,…
Eleven U.S. senators joined Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) to introduce the “Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2017” (S. 548). Original cosponsors include Senators…
The United for Homes (UFH) campaign continued its series of monthly webinars for current campaign endorsers with the March 8 webinar “New Partners, New Voices: Expanding the United for Homes Campaign…
Several Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee sent a letter on March 10 to newly confirmed HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson on a report by the Washington Post that the Trump administration is…
Dr. Ben Carson gave his first public remarks last week after the Senate voted to confirm him as HUD secretary on March 2. In speeches on March 6 to HUD employees and to attendees at the National…
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ (CBPP) updated Chart Book: Federal Housing Spending is Poorly Matched to Need continues to show how federal housing expenditures disproportionately benefit…
Los Angeles County voters took major steps toward ending homelessness at the ballot box on March 7. By slightly more than the two-thirds majority needed, voters passed Measure H to generate…
