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…
The Resident Opportunity Self-Sufficiency grant (ROSS) and the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) are two HUD programs of great interest to public housing residents and other housing advocates.…
Sequestration, the across-the-board discretionary funding cuts required by the Budget Control Act of 2011 and modified by the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, could reduce federal department…
The Senate Committee on the Budget will hold two hearings during the week of February 11. The first will be on February 12 at 10:30 am, when the committee will hold a hearing on the Budget and…
On January 30, Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) introduced the Baseline Reform Act of 2013 with Senators Ron Johnson (R-WI), Mike Lee (R-UT), and Rob Portman (R-OH). S. 185 would require that the baseline…
The House Committee on Financial Services held the first hearing of the 113th Congress on February 6. It was also the first in a series of hearings on the Federal Housing Administration.Committee…
HUD announced on February 8 that it will issue a final rule to formalize the national standard for determining whether a housing practice or policy violates the Fair Housing Act because it has a…
HUD’s Office of Affordable Housing Preservation (OHAP) created a webpage for the Section 202 Senior Preservation Rental Assistance Contracts (SPRACs) program. The webpage allows users to download a…
Two recent notices lay out requirements for testing for and mitigating the effects of radon gas in assisted housing. HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) issued a notice, PIH 2013-6,…
The Treasury Department’s second quarter update to its 2012-2013 Priority Guidance Plan added four Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) topics. The 2012-2013 Priority Guidance Plan has 317 projects…
The Obama Administration announced a government-wide effort to reduce the number of homes with health and safety hazards on February 4. Advancing Healthy Housing – A Strategy for Action outlines the…
More than 30 Colorado housing developers and service providers attended a training session in January to learn ways to reduce energy costs in affordable housing developments. Organized by Housing…
