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Represents Greatest Investment in Social Safety Net Programs Since the Great Society
In the early morning hours today, Senate Democrats passed a fiscal year 2022 (FY22) Budget Resolution on a party line vote of 50-49 just one day after...
(Washington, D.C.) August 4, 2021: Statement from CLPHA Executive Director Sunia Zaterman on the extension of the CDC’s eviction moratorium:
“The Center for Disease Control’s order to extend the...
CLPHA Will Press for Expedited ERAP Application Process
The Center for Disease Control has extended the eviction moratorium in areas with rapidly increasing COVID infections for 60 days from August 3, 2021 to October 3, 2021.
CDC Eviction...
The recently introduced trillion-dollar infrastructure bipartisan agreement in the Senate, “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act,” includes several provisions affecting public housing under “Division F- Broadband.” In the definitions section of Title I for Broadband Grants the agreement defines a...
HUD Funding Encompassed in Consolidated Appropriations Act
On July 29, on a strict party-line vote of 219–208 with all Democrats present voting “aye” and all Republicans present voting “nay”, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a “minibus” fiscal year 2022 (FY22) appropriations legislation...
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David Greer, CLPHA
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For Immediate Release
July 30, 2021
(Washington, D.C.) July 30, 2021 – CLPHA Executive Director Sunia Zaterman...
Earlier this July, the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) released their annual Out of Reach 2021: The High Cost of Housing report. Every year, this national report provides researchers and advocates with important data demonstrating the widening gap between where minimum wage...
The Urban Institute published a report last month that attempts to examine past HUD and PIH programs to better instruct more equitable development initiatives within the future public housing industry. Titled An Equitable Strategy for Public Housing Redevelopment,...
Seventeen months after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, public housing agencies (PHAs) have been forced to quickly adjust their operational policies and procedures to protect their staff, residents and property owners, while...
HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) announced $20 million in available grant funds for non-profit or governmental entities to provide free legal assistance to low-income residents at risk of or subject to eviction. HUD expects to make 20 awards, grant amounts...