Tag: legislative-news
Under Trump, Treasury Goes Backward on Community Protections
A recent Treasury Department report on bank regulation and policy promotes changes that would move us backward when it comes to building a financial system that is equitable, efficient, and protects consumers and communities from abusive practices.
Community Development Legislative News
New Bill to Establish National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Senator John F. Kerry (D-MA) introduced S. 2997, the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act...
Community Development Legislative News
HUD Budget Threatened – Again On June 21, the House of Representatives passed (256-169) H.R. 4635, the FY01 VA/HUD appropriations bill. The bill cuts...
Community Development Legislative News
H.R 1776 Seeks to Expand Homeownership On Thursday, April 6, H.R. 1776, a far-reaching and far-ranging bill with more than a few provisions communities...
HUD Budget Request
President Clinton's fiscal year 2001 (FY01) budget request submitted to Congress February 7 seeks increases for HUD programs in general. In a recent Memo...
Housing Legislative News
Congress Guts CRA The bill that emerged from conference committee negotiations over the financial modernization bills, H.R. 10 and S. 900, would gut the...
Housing Legislative News
House Committee Slashes HUD Funding
"Death by a thousand cuts" is how some have described the House VA-HUD-IA Appropriations Subcommittee's mark-up on July 26. The...
Community Development Legislative News
From the National Low Income Housing Coalition President Submits HUD's FY2000 Request The Clinton administration submitted its FY2000 budget request to Congress on February...
Legislative News
1998 Elections
Senate Banking and Financial Services Committee Chairman Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY) was defeated in his race for re-election on November 3 by Charles Schumer...
Housing and Community Development Legislative News
Housing Reform Bills After a year of trying to reach consensus on major public and assisted housing reform, House and Senate staff are...
Legislative News
May/June 1998 Washington News and Views Legislative News Congress Raids Section 8 to Fund Emergency Aid The President signed the 1998 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations...
Washington News and Views
Public Housing Talks Continue Behind Closed Doors
As of early April, the principal sponsors of legislation to deregulate public housing and to merge the Section...
1998 Legislative Agenda
FY1999 HUD Budget
"Cities have been at a competitive disadvantage with outlying counties," said HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo in a February 2 New York Times...