Senator Collins Remains Chair of THUD Appropriations Subcommittee
Following the retirement of Senate Appropriations Chair Thad Cochran (R-MS) at the beginning of April, Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) was selected to serve as the new chair. As committee chair, Senator...
View ArticleCHCDF Thanks THUD Appropriations Leadership for HUD Funding Increase
The Campaign for Housing and Community Development Funding (CHCDF) sent a letter signed by 50 national organizations thanking House and Senate subcommittee appropriations leadership for the 10%...
View ArticleTrump Administration to Propose FY18 Funding Rescission Despite Opposition...
Current and former administration officials and others close to the White House have indicated the Trump Administration will propose cutting up to $60 billion from the FY18 funding bill passed by...
View ArticlePresident Trump Signs Executive Order On Work Requirements
President Trump released on April 10 an executive order that directs federal agencies, including HUD, to consider ways to cut critical benefits, like affordable housing, that help low income households...
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Week of Action Is Fast Approaching—Get Involved!
Twenty events across the country have so far been scheduled for the Our Homes, Our Voices National Housing Week of Action, May 1-8, and are posted on the campaign website. To participate in an event in...
View ArticleDisaster Housing Recovery Update, Wednesday, April 18, 2018
General NLIHC has prepared a chart detailing CDBG-DR Allocations and the status of State Action Plans.Federal ResponseCongressSenator Bill Nelson (D-FL) sent a letter on April 16 urging the Director of...
View ArticleSenator Nelson Calls for More Affordable Housing in Disaster Recovery
Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) sent a letter on April 16 urging the Director of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) to use Community Development Block Grant–Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR)...
View ArticleSenate Democrats Call for Housing Assistance for Families Displaced after...
Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ed Markey (D-MA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Robert Menendez (D-NJ) issued a letter to FEMA Administrator Brock Long calling...
View ArticleOpportunity Starts at Home Launches E-Newsletter on May 1. Sign Up Today!
Opportunity Starts at Home, a new national multi-sector housing campaign bringing together new voices to meet the housing needs of the lowest income people in American, will launch its monthly...
View ArticleHouse Financial Services Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on Proposals to...
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance will hold a hearing to review legislative proposals on “rent reforms” that would result in rent increases and benefit cuts to low...
View ArticleHouse Financial Services Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Housing Choice Vouchers
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance held a hearing on April 17 to review legislative proposals regarding the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program. Members of the...
View ArticleSenators Address Facebook’s Potential Discriminatory Practices
Senator Catharine Cortez-Masto (D-NV) and thirteen other Democratic senators sent a letter on April 17 to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg urging him to ensure targeted advertising policies do not...
View ArticleHouse Appropriations Subcommittee to Hold Budget Hearing on the Federal...
The House Appropriations Subcommittee for Transportation and Housing and Urban Development will hold a FY19 budget hearing on the Office of Housing and Federal Housing Administration. General Deputy...
View ArticleSecretary Carson Testifies Before Senate Subcommittee on FY19 HUD Budget Request
The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for Transportation and Housing and Urban Development held a FY19 budget hearing on April 18. HUD Secretary Ben Carson testified, defending his proposal to slash...
View ArticleHUD Confirms It Will Release Proposals to Increase Rents and Impose Work...
The House Appropriations Subcommittee for Transportation and Housing and Urban Development held an FY19 budget hearing on April 17 for the Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH). PIH Acting...
View ArticleOppose Cuts to Housing Benefits on April 25
NLIHC and other national leaders will join with advocates across the country to call on Congress to protect housing benefits that help America’s poorest seniors, people with disabilities, families with...
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Forty-Three Our Homes, Our Voices Week of Action Events in 20 States…and...
The 2018 Our Homes, Our Voices National Housing Week of Action, beginning on May 1, is less than two weeks away. With 43 events in 20 states, the wave of local events participating in the 2018 Our...
View ArticleFEMA Is Ignoring a Longer-Term Housing Option for Displaced Low Income...
The following was published as an op-ed in the Orlando Sentinel on April 20, 2018:https://bit.ly/2vB78flFor displaced people from the 2017 hurricanes, the storms were the first disaster - FEMA’s...
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National Twitterstorm and Call-In Day on April 25 to Oppose Cuts to Housing...
At a hearing tomorrow, members of Congress will discuss proposals to cut housing benefits that help America’s lowest income seniors, people with disabilities, families with children, and other people...
View ArticleAffordable Housing Advocates Tell HUD and Congress – Keep Housing Affordable...
Washington DC– The Trump administration is seeking to impose work requirements, rent increases, and other burdens on millions of low income families who receive federal housing assistance through the...
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