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On November 2, Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) introduced a bill to provide affordable housing to survivors of major disasters. Senator Nelson noted in a statement that tens of thousands of…
NLIHC’s 2018 Housing Policy Forum: Building the Movement taking place in Washington, DC, March 19-21, 2018, will explore non-partisan voter registration, engagement and mobilization, especially among…
NLIHC is accepting nominations for the 2018 Annual Organizing Awards. The Organizing Awards recognize outstanding achievement during 2017 in statewide, regional, citywide, neighborhood, and/or…
United for Homes endorsers are invited to join a webinar, “The New Republican Legislation on Tax Reform: MID Reform and Next Steps for Our Campaign,” on November 8 at 2:00 pm ET. Presenters from…
House Republicans released on November 2 the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" to make sweeping changes to the U.S. tax code. The plan takes a historic step in directly revising the mortgage interest…
The House Ways and Means Committee will consider the House Republican tax reform legislation, the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” (HR 1), on November 6 at 12:00 pm ET in room 1100 of the Longworth House…
NLIHC released a blog post that analyzes preliminary information about housing damage in Texas after Hurricane Harvey and registrants for assistance from FEMA’s Individuals and Households Program (…
As previously reported in Memo on 10/30, HUD had been weighing whether it could legally provide Section 8 subsidy payments to owners of HUD-assisted properties in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands…
The following are updates on hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico related to Governor Ricardo Rosselló’s request for FEMA to approve Temporary Sheltering Assistance (TSA) to provide residents…
The following are updates on Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts in Texas related to a request from the Governor’s Commission to Rebuild Texas for $61 billion in additional federal assistance for…
Senators from Florida and Texas raised concerns about delays in disaster recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria and called for action from the administration, Congress,…
