The House is at a stalemate in advancing its proposed budget resolution that was approved by the Budget Committee last month on a party line vote. The budget resolution faces opposition on both sides…
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration approved its FY17 spending bill on April 13. The bill would increase funding for the U.S.…
The House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee held a hearing on April 14 titled “The Failure of Trickle Down Economics in the War on Poverty.,” Witnesses spoke about families struggling to make…
Representatives Annie Kuster (D-NH) and Rick Nolan (D-MN) introduced the “Rural Housing Preservation Act” (H.R. 4908) on April 12. The purpose of the bill is to ensure that thousands of families…
Fourteen members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Mel Watt on April 14 urging FHFA to provide debt relief to long-standing…
Last week, HUD sent to Congress its plan to implement a demonstration program for energy and water conservation improvements in certain HUD properties. The pilot program, enacted in December, 2015,…
Research by real estate website Trulia titled Minorities and Women are Losing Out on Homeownership and Tax Breaks finds that members of racial minorities and women are less likely to own a home with…
Representative Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) introduced the “Housing Finance Restructuring Act of 2016” (H.R. 4913) on April 12 to recapitalize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and release them from conservatorship…
The 2016 issue of the National Alliance to End Homelessness’s (NAEH) annual report The State of Homelessness in America shows that on a single night in January 2015, 564,708 people in the U.S. were…
Chrishelle Palay, co-director of the Houston office of the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service (TxLIHIS), an NLIHC state partner, spoke to a crowd of residents of Houston’s affluent…
The National Housing Law Project is offering webinars providing an overview of the new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulations, an update on the rule’s implementation, and…
HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) issued Notice PIH 2016-06 on April 7, providing guidance to public housing agencies (PHAs) regarding their administration of resident self-…
