How Project 2025 Would Dismantle HUD — Shelterforce …
Sep 26, 2024 · Reported Article HUD. How Project 2025 Would Dismantle HUD. The Heritage Foundation’s “conservative playbook” isn’t new, but critics say the latest version’s policies and platforms are more discriminatory and dangerous than in the past.
Housing Groups Weigh in on Harris’s and Trump’s Housing Plans
Oct 22, 2024 · Once dismissed as a “third-rail political issue,” housing is finally being prioritized as a platform issue in the 2024 presidential election.That is in no small part because the housing crisis, decades in the making, has reached a boiling point. Today the U.S. has a housing shortfall of an estimated 4 million to 7 million homes.A record-high …
Where the Harris, Trump Campaigns Stand on Housing
Oct 2, 2024 · Trump’s campaign website’s messaging largely defers to the GOP platform for its positions on housing, which offers few concrete proposals to address housing issues such as the housing shortage, beyond a brief mention of deporting undocumented immigrants to decrease demand.. Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign’s national press secretary, told TIME that the former president would also ban ...
States Are Using This Tool to Keep LIHTC Housing Affordable for …
Sep 13, 2024 · States Extending Affordability. Last December, the Poverty and Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) released a report finding that more than two dozen states have extended the minimum affordability period beyond the 30 years required by federal law. In fact, 51 percent of all properties financed by LIHTC in 2021 will be affordable for longer than the federal minimum, according to National ...
Could This Rolling Rent Strike Make the Feds Protect Tenants?
Oct 4, 2024 · TUF has its roots in a previous campaign, Homes Guarantee, which was launched in 2017 as an arm of the multi-issue organizing group People’s Action.That campaign set its sights on FHFA after it found that it had the ability to enshrine and enforce increased tenant protections, through its regulatory capacities.
How Medical Respite Programs Work - Shelterforce
Jul 26, 2024 · Despite the significant need for medical respite programs across the country, their future growth faces significant barriers. There is a lack of dedicated funding sources for these programs in many states, which can hinder the ability of …
VA’s Work to End Veteran Homelessness Is a Nationwide Model.
Mar 1, 2024 · A year after the count began, in 2008, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development launched the HUD-VA Supportive Housing program, which has provided housing vouchers and supportive services for thousands of homeless veterans every year since its establishment.. The scale of resources for housing homeless veterans is far closer to the actual need when compared to any other subgroup of ...
Trump Picks Scott Turner to Lead HUD — Shelterforce Shelterforce
Nov 26, 2024 · Turner is Trump’s first Black appointee, continuing a pattern former HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge complained about when she was seeking the agriculture secretary position in 2020—that of Black leaders being primarily relegated to HUD.. Because of his background with Opportunity Zones, the Black Community Developers Group—a coalition of 50 Black community developers, home builders, and ...
Who Could Lead HUD Under a Second Trump Administration?
Nov 22, 2024 · [Editor’s note: Trump announced just after publication that he will nominate Scott Turner, a former NFL player and House representative for Texas from 2013 to 2017, to lead HUD.Turner currently serves as the chair of the Center for Education Opportunity at America First Policy Institute, and was the executive director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council during Trump’s ...
Where Housing Won and Lost in the 2024 Election
Nov 7, 2024 · Prop 5—Voters rejected this measure, which, if passed, would have reduced the threshold to approve local bonds to fund affordable housing, supportive housing, or public infrastructure initiatives from two-thirds to 55 percent, and added various accountability requirements to those bonds. Legislative analysis showed that 20 percent to 50 percent more local bond measures would have passed ...