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With all the talk about the work Congress is doing to decide on next year’s appropriations for HUD and rural housing, it’s easy to forget that there is another big budget issue looming: sequestration. As we wrote in Memo to Members in January, The Budget Control Act of 2011 required Congress to form a bipartisan committee Continue reading
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News Round-Up: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s recent off-mic remark that he might eliminate HUD if elected president sparked much speculation in the news about what would happen if that agency were to disappear. Advocates agree that for the 2.5 million people helped by HUD-administered housing aid, HUD has a very meaningful impact. Meanwhile, a profile of Continue reading
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It’s No Time to Cut Housing
An editorial in today’s New York Times chides lawmakers for considering cuts to HUD programs and asks Congress to “shor[e] up the precious few federal programs that provide affordable housing for the poor, the elderly and the disabled” in this time of record homelessness and continuing economic instability. The Times outlines the challenges facing public Continue reading
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Building a Movement
Ordinarily, we use our Wednesday posts to discuss policy issues. But we readily admit that it takes more than just good ideas and some research findings to move a policy agenda through Congress. It takes the voices of many to encourage lawmakers to act. This is why we work so hard to grow our membership, Continue reading
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National Housing Trust Fund: How It Works
We talk a lot about the National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF) on this blog, but don’t always give you the nitty gritty details of the program. Today’s post delves into those details with an excerpt from an article on the NHTF from the Advocates’ Guide. The purpose of the National Housing Trust Fund is to Continue reading
On the Home Front 