Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Committee on Financial Services, introduced the “Public Housing Tenant Protection and Reinvestment Act of 2017” on June 29. The bill seeks…
Senate Democrats sent a letter on June 26 to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senator Appropriations Committee Chair Thad Cochran (R-MS) stressing the need for a bipartisan, bicameral…
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, whose jurisdiction includes U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) rural affordable housing programs, voted on its FY18 spending bill. The draft…
Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-CA), along with all the Committee’s Democratic members, sent a letter on June 27 to Committee Chair Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) requesting…
Each year, HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) issues a notice explaining how it will implement the latest appropriations act provisions for the Housing Choice Voucher program. …
The Senate Committee on Banking held a hearing on June 29 to discuss principles of housing finance reform. Senators expressed increasing interest in a bipartisan housing finance reform bill this year…
A report by the Urban Institute, titled A Paired-Testing Pilot Study of Housing Discrimination against Same-Sex Couples and Transgender Individuals, finds that transgender individuals and male…
NLIHC, together with state, local, and national partners, has expanded the Our Homes, Our Voices campaign this summer to include a week of activities across the country calling for increased federal…
More than 1,000 national, state, and local organizations have signed onto NLIHC’s letter urging Congress to protect and expand the national Housing Trust Fund (HTF), which President Trump proposed to…
NLIHC urges advocates to contact their members of Congress to oppose the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to rural housing for FY18 and to fully fund rural housing investments. The president’s…
Republican leaders of the House Budget Committee hope to vote on a FY18 budget resolution this week, even as House GOP members continue to disagree on overall fiscal policy. The Republican proposal…
Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), a cofounder of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, introduced a bill that would consolidate nearly all federal affordable housing programs into state block grants…
