President Barack Obama released his FY14 budget request to Congress on April 10 (see article later in Memo). The President’s budget request includes $1 billion for HUD’s National Housing Trust Fund (…
Two additional Members of the House of Representatives have co-sponsored H.R. 1213, the Common Sense Housing Investment Act of 2013. They are Representatives Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Jan Schakowsky (D-…
The United for Homes Campaign now has a website. Located at www.unitedforhomes.org, the site provides information about the campaign, about our proposal to fund the National Housing Trust Fund with…
The United for Homes Campaign will host a Congressional staff briefing on April 22. The briefing will provide staff with an overview of the United for Homes campaign to modernize the mortgage…
The United for Homes Campaign will continue its series of webinars on the proposal to fund the National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF) with revenues generated from modifications to the mortgage interest…
President Barack Obama released his fifth budget request to Congress on April 10, over two months after the statutory deadline passed. The FY14 discretionary request for affordable housing programs…
The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) held a hearing on the President’s FY14 HUD budget request to Congress on April 11…
The Senate Committee on the Budget held a hearing on the President’s FY14 budget on April 11, where the sole witness was Jeffrey Zients, the Acting Director and Deputy Director for Management for the…
The Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs held a hearing, “Identifying Barriers to Indian Housing Development and Finding Solutions,” on April 10. Committee Chair Maria Cantwell (D-WA) opened the…
The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban will hold an April 18 hearing on "Oversight of Federal Housing Finance Agency: Evaluating the Federal Housing Finance Agency as Regulator and…
The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that Westchester County, New York violated one of the terms of a consent decree from August 2009 regarding the county’s failure to affirmatively…
