HUD’s Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD) issued HOME and the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Guidebook. The 161-page publication provides technical guidance on how to assess projects…
Four years after Hurricanes Ike and Dolly inflicted destruction along the Texas coast, state and local advocates continue their work to ensure that residents in affected communities have the…
A new report to Congress from the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) finds that the number of veterans experiencing homelessness fell by 12% between January 2010 and January 2011, based…
The Senate confirmed President Obama’s July 2011 nomination of Carol Galante to be Assistant Secretary for Housing and Federal Housing Administrator on December 30 by a vote of 69 to 24.Ms. Galante…
As 2012 drew to a close, Congress scrambled to address the nation’s long-approaching fiscal challenges that lawmakers had thus far not resolved. In order to avoid taking the economy off a “fiscal…
In the closing days of the 112th Congress, Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) introduced H.R. 6677, the Common Sense Housing Investment Act. The bill, introduced on December 18, would convert the…
This special edition of Memo to Members brings you the latest news from Capitol Hill on the fiscal cliff, sequestration and year-end movement on housing legislation. Memo will return to its regular…
Representative Mike Capuano (D-MA) and 31 other Democrats sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Mel Watt urging them to reassess the Obama…
“Extra Oomph:” Addressing Housing Disparities through Medical Legal Partnership Interventions, a study by Diana Hernández at Columbia University published in Housing Studies, found that pairing legal…
Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA) introduced the “Housing for Homeless Students Act” (H.R. 5290), which would allow full-time students who are or recently have been homeless to qualify for rental…
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) will release tomorrow the House Republicans’ policy proposals for combatting poverty in America. In February, Speaker Ryan tasked House Republican leaders to develop a…
The Arizona state housing trust fund, one of the oldest housing trust funds in the nation, will soon double its funding as a result of the passage of HB 2666, the “Governor’s Economic Opportunity…
