Ways and Means Committee Chair Dave Camp (R-MI) and Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) announced on February 13 the formation of 11 working groups to examine particular aspects of the tax code in…
St. Valentine’s Day, February 14, was packed with Congressional activity on sequestration, but a solution has yet to emerge. Members from both sides of the aisle were eager to critique what the…
The Senate and House Committees on the Budget each held hearings on the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, “Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2013-2023” (see Memo, 2/8). The Senate…
The House Committee on Financial Services passed its oversight plan for the 113th Congress on a party-line vote of 33 to 27. The plan is to be submitted to both the Committee on Oversight and the…
The Senate approved the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) reauthorization bill, S. 47, on February 12 by vote of 78–22. The legislation, among other provisions, expands housing protections for…
NLIHC has developed a model resolution governing boards of organizations or units of government can use to endorse the proposal.
The resolution is appropriate for use with any kind of entity such as…
February 13, 2013Contact: Amy Clark, 202.662.1530 x227, [email protected] Statement by NLIHC President and CEO Sheila Crowley in response to the State of the Union SpeechPresident Barack Obama, in his…
HUD has posted Notice CPD-16-14 providing guidance for meeting environmental requirements when national Housing Trust Fund (HTF) money is used for new construction and rehabilitation. The HTF…
NLIHC provides state-specific information related to national Housing Trust Fund (HTF) allocation plans. The state resources, updated regularly, can be found at: http://bit.ly/28SEBVd. We also…
The Campaign for Housing and Community Development (CHCDF) delivered a statement to Members of Congress explaining why a long-term stopgap funding measure, known as a continuing resolution (CR), puts…
The Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) and the Institute for Policy Studies released a report titled The Ever Growing Gap that documents racial inequities in wealth accumulation and…
The conventions are over. Candidates up and down the ballot are on the campaign trail making promises and asking for votes. Let’s join forces to make sure that affordable housing is on their agenda…
