Advocates and Congressional Champions Secure Increased Funding for Affordable Housing in 2018
Congress passed a final FY18 spending bill that includes a significant increase in funding for affordable housing and community development programs at HUD and USDA, along with an increase…
Secretary Carson Testifies Before Senate Banking Committee
HUD Secretary Ben Carson testified on March 22 at a Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Senators from both parties questioned the Trump administration’s proposals to increase…
Policy Update
Federal Budget Update: President Trump Tries Again to Eliminate and Reduce Housing Programs President Donald Trump’s Fiscal Year 2019 budget request proposes deep cuts to housing benefits that help…
Senate Democrats' Infrastructure Plan Includes $62 Billion for Housing, Community Revitalization, Disaster Recovery, and Lead Remediation
In response to President Trump’s infrastructure plan released in February, Senate Democrats have released the “Jobs & Infrastructure Plan for America’s Workers.” The new plan proposes $1 trillion…
NLIHC and Partners Urge Congress to Prioritize Lowest Income Households in FY18
NLIHC, the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH), and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) sent a letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees urging them to fund…
More than 60 Mayors Push for Increased Federal Funding for Public Housing
A group of more than 60 mayors sent a letter to the leadership of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees urging Congress to provide more federal funding for public housing. The long-term…
Congress May Include Housing Credit Expansion and Improvements in Omnibus Spending Bill
House appropriators expect to introduce a $1.3 trillion omnibus FY18 spending bill as early as March 15. The omnibus includes all 12 spending bills for the current fiscal that started on October 1,…
House Financial Services Committee Approves FY19 Budget Views and Estimates
The House Financial Services Committee approved its FY19 Budget Views and Estimates by a vote of 32 to 25 on March 6. This document is submitted to the House Budget Committee for consideration in…
Tell Congress to Provide Robust Funding for Affordable Housing and Reject Proposals to Slash Housing Benefits
Sign two letters calling on Congress to reject President Donald Trump’s FY19 proposals to slash funding to federal affordable housing programs and to impose harmful rent increases and arbitrary…
White House Officials Testify on FY19 Budget Proposal
Several Senate and House committees held hearings on President Donald Trump’s proposed FY19 budget, which would dramatically cut HUD and USDA affordable housing programs and other non-defense…
President's Budget Calls for Drastic Cuts to Affordable Housing
President Donald Trump’s FY19 budget request released on February 12 proposes drastic cuts to housing benefits that help millions of low income seniors, people with disabilities, families…