Housing and Homelessness

Background

Background on Housing and Homelessness

Latest News

HNR: House and Senate Set FY 2011 Spending Targets Lower Than President’s;
Spending Tight, but Some Growth in House Labor-HHS Appropriations (7/26/10)
HNR: Protections for Renters and Homeless Legislation Signed into Law (5/29/09)
HNR: House Passes Legislation to Help Homeowners (3/11/09)
National organizations call on Congress to include a minimum of $45 billion in the economic recovery package for housing programs (1/14/09)
HNR: President Signs Major Housing Legislation (8/5/08)


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Policy Analyses and Research

CAP: Nowhere to Go: Issue Brief on Gay and Transgender Youth Homelessness (August 2010)
CAP: On the Streets: The Federal Response to Gay and Transgender Homeless Youth (June 2010)
CAP: Low-Income Fathers Need to Get Connected: Helping Children and Families by Addressing Low-Income Fathers' Disconnections from Employment, Society, and Housing (June 2010)
Children's HealthWatch: Healthy Families in Hard Times: Solutions for Multiple Family Hardships (June 2010)
CEPR: The Right to Rent Plan (April 2010)

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Government Resources

Status and text of H.R. 4241 "Deficit Reduction Act" (The budget reconciliation bill approved by the House 11/18/05)
Status of "HOPE VI Reauthorization and Improvement Act" (S. 1513 introduced 7/27/05)
Senate Appropriations Committee: S. Rept. 109-109 HUD Appropriations for FY 2006 (7/26/05)
House Appropriations Committee: H. Rept. 109-153 HUD Appropriations for FY 2006 (6/24/05)
Status of "State and Local Flexibility Act of 2005" (S. 771 introduced 4/13/05)
A bill that would give Public Housing Authorities the flexibility to set term limits on vouchers, set rents without regard to income, limit subsidies and more .

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