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House Democrats Urge Colleagues to Reject Policy Riders
House Democrats urged their colleagues to advance FY17 spending bills without policy riders that threaten to derail the appropriations process. More than 172 representatives sent a letter to House...
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Advocates Oppose Balanced Budget Amendment
NLIHC joined 268 national organizations in sending a letter to Congress opposing a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The letter states, “A balanced budget constitutional amendment...
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House Appropriations Committee Passes FY17 USDA Spending Bill
The House Committee on Appropriations approved by a voice vote its FY17 spending bill for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on April 19. As we reported last week (see Memo 4/18), the bill would...
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Senate Appropriations Committee Approves FY17 THUD Spending Bill
The Senate Committee on Appropriations passed its FY17 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) funding bill on April 21 by unanimous consent, 30 to 0. The...
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Senator Shelby Requests GAO and CBO Reports on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, last week sent letters to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Congressional...
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Point of View by Diane Yentel
Many of you may remember Sheila Crowley's weekly “Point of View” column in Memo to Members. For those of us working on housing policy in the late 1990's and early 2000's, it was essential reading. Each...
View ArticleNLIHC Applauds Representative Waters for Working to Remove Housing Barriers...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) applauds Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) for introducing the Fair Chance at Housing Act of 2016, legislation that would take a...
View ArticleLetter from Advocates in support of H.R. 3700
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View ArticleFrom the Field: Washington State Budget Takes Small Steps on Homelessness,...
Washington affordable housing advocates are encouraged by commitments to address youth homelessness in the supplemental capital and operating budgets passed by the state legislature before adjournment...
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Fact of the Week: Change in Funding for Federal Housing Programs since 2010
Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (2016). Chart Book: Cuts in Federal Assistance Have Exacerbated Families’ Struggle to Afford Housing. Washington, DC: Center on Budget and Policy...
View ArticleFederal Housing Assistance Declines Despite Increase in Need
A publication by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities titled Chart Book: Cuts in Federal Assistance Have Exacerbated Families’ Struggles to Afford Housing illustrates the budget cuts to federal...
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NLIHC Reprises Voterization Webinars
For those who might have missed NLIHC’s first two webinar offerings of the 2016 Voterization series, not to worry. Due to popular demand, both sessions will be presented again in early May....
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Advocates Thank Candidates for Visiting Public Housing, Request Follow up...
After both Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Secretary Hillary Clinton visited New York public housing and detailed the affordable housing policies they would pursue as President, advocates sent...
View ArticlePHAs Award Grants to Help Justice-Involved Youth Find Housing and Jobs
In an effort to reduce housing and employment barriers for justice-involved youth, HUD and the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced $1.75 million in grants to public housing agencies (PHAs) that have...
View ArticleNAEH and Congressional Homelessness Caucus Host Hill Briefing
On April 28, the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH) and the Congressional Homelessness Caucus hosted a Hill briefing to highlight NAEH’s recently released The State of Homelessness in America...
View ArticleHouse Conservatives Release Poverty Agenda, Include Housing Reforms
The Republican Study Committee (RSC), a group of conservatives in the House, submitted its recommendations to House Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) Task Force on Poverty, Opportunity, and Upward Mobility...
View ArticleAdvocates Urge Senate Passage of Housing Modernization Act
NLIHC joined 39 national organizations in sending a letter to the Senate urging passage of the “Housing Opportunities Through Modernization Act” (H.R. 3700). The House passed H.R. 3700 unanimously on...
View ArticleBill Introduced to Remove Housing Barriers for People with Criminal Records
Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA), Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee, introduced the “Fair Chance at Housing Act of 2016” (H.R. 5085) that would take significant steps towards...
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House Still Locked in Budget Battle, Senate Considers Reforms
Republican members of the House Budget Committee continued to discuss ways to move forward its FY17 budget resolution but did not appear closer to gaining enough support to pass one on the House floor....
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Senate Consideration of THUD Spending Bill Delayed
The Senate seemed poised to begin considering the FY17 THUD spending bill (S. 2844) last week until an amendment related to the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal was offered during debate of the FY17 Energy and...
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