Senate Passes, President Signs Latest Emergency Spending Bill
The Senate passed the latest emergency spending bill on October 24 to pay for ongoing relief from the recent natural disasters. The bill includes $18.7 billion for FEMA’s response to natural disasters,...
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Register Today for NLIHC’s 2018 Housing Policy Forum, Celebrate Housing...
NLIHC’s 2018 Housing Policy Forum: Building the Movement will take place in Washington, DC, March 19-21, 2018, and the 2018 Housing Leadership Award honorees - Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), Matt...
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Disaster Housing Recovery Update, Monday, October 30, 2017
Data and Information Compiled by NLIHCCalifornia WildfiresHurricane MariaHurricane IrmaHurricane HarveyData and Information Compiled by NLIHCNLIHC Blog Highlights Early Findings from FEMA Data. FEMA...
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Ensuring an Equitable Recovery for Renters Impacted by Hurricane Harvey
On August 25, Hurricane Harvey devastated communities in Eastern Texas. Fifty-three counties received a Presidential Disaster Declaration, forty-one of which were designated for the Federal Emergency...
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DEADLINE EXTENDED: Ask Congress to Keep Housing Dollars in Housing – Not to...
Ask your representatives to sign onto Representative Keith Ellison's (D-MN) Dear Colleague letter, urging Congress to reinvest federal housing dollars in any tax reform legislation to address America’s...
View ArticleDisaster Housing Recovery Update, Tuesday, October 31, 2017
CongressHUDGeneral UpdateCalifornia WildfiresHurricane MariaHurricane IrmaHurricane HarveyCongressSenate Homeland Security Hearing. Today, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental...
View ArticleStatement by National Low Income Housing Coalition President and CEO Diane...
WASHINGTON, D.C.- The tax reform legislation proposed by House Republican leaders takes a historic step in directly revising the mortgage interest deduction (MID), a $70 billion annual tax expenditure...
View ArticleHouse Republicans Propose Legislation that Includes Historic Direct Reforms...
After some last-minute negotiations, House Republicans today released 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...
View ArticleDisaster Housing Recovery Update, Thursday, November 2, 2017
CongressGeneral UpdateCalifornia WildfiresHurricane MariaHurricane IrmaHurricane HarveyCONGRESSCDBG-DR Hearing. The House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations...
View ArticleAdditional Updates on Disaster Housing Recovery
The following is a review of additional housing recovery developments related to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, and the California wildfires since last week’s Memo to Members and Partners (for the...
View ArticleHUD Provides Numbers of HUD-Assisted Properties and Units in Disaster Areas...
HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing Programs provided the numbers of HUD-assisted properties and units in disaster-affected areas in Texas, Florida, Georgia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and...
View ArticleCongress Holds Hearings on Disaster Recovery Response and Programs
Congressional committees held several hearings the week of October 30 on the federal response to the recent hurricanes. The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs conducted an...
View ArticleSenators from Florida and Texas Weigh In on Disaster Recovery
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, and...
View ArticleTexas Hurricane Housing Recovery Updates
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...
View ArticleTemporary Shelter Assistance and Other Housing Options Provided to Residents...
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 with...
View ArticleHUD to Continue Providing Section 8 Subsidies to Owners of Properties Lacking...
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...
View ArticleNLIHC Analyzes Hurricane Harvey Impact
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...
View ArticleUnited for Homes Webinar: Understand the Proposed Tax Reform Legislation,...
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...
View ArticleHouse to Begin Debate on Republican Tax Reform Bill
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 Office...
View ArticleHouse Republican Tax Bill Includes Historic Direct Reforms to Mortgage...
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 deduction,...
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