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3.6.25

On March 10, Take Action to Protect HUD and Affordable Homes!

Join a coalition of stakeholders including CLPHA, the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, the Public Housing Authority Directors Association, the National Low Income Housing Coalition, the National Alliance to End Homelessness, the National Housing Law Project, and more in our March 10 Day of Action to Protect HUD and Affordable Homes!

3.3.25

CLPHA Calls for Reform of Long-Term Costs for Affordable Housing Developers

2.27.25

HUD to Terminate Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule

An Interim Final Rule will return AFFH to pre-1994 fair housing commitments HUD also halting enforcement of Gender Identity Equal Access Rule

2.26.25

CLPHA and Industry Partners Call for Adjustment to HOTMA 102, 104 Compliance Date, Express Concern about HIP Implementation

CLPHA, NAHRO, PHADA, the MTW Collaborative, five major software vendors, and dozens of PHAs have sent a sign-on letter detailing concerns about the rollout of t

2.26.25

CLPHA Supports Relaunch of Congressional Public Housing Caucus Led by Reps. Cleaver, Lynch, Meeks, and Torres

From Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's (D-MO) press release: Today, U.S. Representatives Emanuel Cleaver, II (MO-05), Ranking Member of the Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance, Stephen Lynch (MA-08), Gregory Meeks (NY-05), and Ritchie Torres (NY-15) announced the establishment of the Congressional Public Housing Caucus (CPHC). Co-chaired by a group of lawmakers with lived...

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4.28.21

ACTION ALERT: Ask Your Member of Congress to Support the SAVE Act

3.25.21

ACTION ALERT: Ask Your Member of Congress to Support Broadband Access

2.10.21

ACTION ALERT: ASK CONGRESS TO FUND PUBLIC HOUSING AND HOUSING VOUCHERS IN THE NEXT COVID-19 RELIEF BILL

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Deadline: 5:00 PM ET Tomorrow, March 26 Urge your members of Congress to cosponsor H.R. 1904: The Broadband Justice Act of 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the growing digital divide and the deepening disparities among access to essential technology. These inequities especially impact lower income households and those living in federally assisted housing. By updating the definitions used by HUD, the Department of Treasury, and USDA for utility allowance, The Broadband Justice Act of 2021 would bring affordable broadband to 8 million households residing in federally assisted housing throughout the nation. Bolstered through the creation of a new grant program to develop the required infrastructure and additional operating funds to mitigate increased costs, access to broadband as an allowed utility would be federally subsidized, in a similar way that gas, electricity, and water currently are. Congressman Bowman (D-NY), the bill sponsor, is organizing support for the letter and has set a Friday, March 26, 5:00 pm ET deadline for House members to sign on.

ACTION: 1) CLPHA is asking you to strongly encourage your Members of Congress to cosponsor H.R. 1904: The Broadband Justice Act of 2021. 2) Your Member of Congress should fill out this form to cosponsor the bill. For additional information, please email Josh Shokoor, CLPHA Research & Policy Analyst, at jshokoor@clpha.org.

Congressional Democrats are moving the next COVID-19 bill swiftly through Congress. CLPHA and other national public housing industry groups are asking our members to sign on to a joint industry letter to be sent to congressional leadership asking for additional emergency funding and longer-term preservation resources for public housing operating funding, housing vouchers, and infrastructure funding.