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Sign-on Letter for FY 2024 Affordable Housing, Community Development Appropriations

The Campaign for Housing and Community Development Funding (CHCDF) is leading a sign-on letter to urge Congress to oppose any cuts to federal affordable housing, homelessness and community development programs, and to instead invest in these vital programs in Fiscal Year 2024.

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House Committee Changes

With the election of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) now settled, House Republicans have begun announcing committee leadership and assignments for the 118th Congress.

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FY 2023 Funding Enacted

The Senate, by a vote of 68-29, and the House of Representatives, by a vote of 225-201, passed a full-year omnibus appropriations bill for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023.

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Congress Poised to Pass Short-Term Continuing Resolution

Funding for the federal government is set to expire on December 15 and Congress is poised to pass a one-week stopgap spending bill to extend Friday’s deadline to fund the government as negotiations continue on a deal to settle disputes over a full year funding agreement with new topline spending levels.

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Democrats Retain Senate, Republicans Poised to Take Control of House

The 118th Congress will most likely be a divided Congress with Democrats retaining the Senate and Republicans taking over the House of Representatives.

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Congress to Vote on Stopgap Funding through Dec. 16

Fiscal Year 2022 funding runs out on September 30, and the federal government begins Fiscal Year 2023 on October 1.

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Senate Passes Inflation Reduction Act – Housing Not Included

Over the weekend, the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act via the reconciliation process, which only requires passage via a simple majority.

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Recap of Senate Banking Committee Hearing on How Renters and Communities are Impacted by Today’s Housing Market

On August 2, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled “‘The Rent Eats First’: How Renters and Communities are Impacted by Today’s Housing Market.”

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NH&RA Joins FSS, Retrofit Sign-on Letters

NH&RA joined a letter urging Congress to include investments to retrofit rental homes to reduce energy costs and emissions and preserve affordable housing, as well as a letter requesting $150,000,000 for the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program in FY23 appropriations. The letter also requests that Congress strike language from past appropriations legislation that prohibited HUD from […]

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NH&RA Joins SLFRF Letter to Congressional Leaders

NH&RA joined with 81 other organizations in a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on the need to adjust the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRF) program so that it can be used efficiently to provide long-term loans to LIHTC developments.

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Congress Passes FY 2022 Funding through March 11

Last week the Senate passed a continuing resolution that will fund the federal government through March 11.

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House Extends Continuing Resolution till March 11; Senate to Vote

Last week the House passed a continuing resolution that would fund the federal government at current funding levels through March 11.

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