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3.19.24

CLPHA's 2024 Policy Priorities: Charting a Ten-Year Roadmap for Public Housing Sustainability

CLPHA is pleased to share our 2024 policy priorities.

3.14.24

CLPHA Review of the FY25 HUD Budget Proposal

On March 11, 2024, the Biden Administration released its full Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) budget request. The Biden Administration continues to push for historic investments in affordable housing and ending homelessness despite budgetary constraints due to the spending caps enacted under the “Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023.” The Administration requests a total $72.6 billion in discretionary...

3.11.24

Biden Administration Requests $2.5 Billion Increase in Funding for HUD in 2025

Today, the Biden Administration released its budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25). For the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Budget requests $72.6 billion in discretionary budget authority for FY25, a $2.531 billion increase or 3.6 percent increase from the FY24 enacted level.

3.8.24

CLPHA Applauds President’s Biden Bold Call to Expand Rental Assistance and Low-Income Housing Tax Credits

Policies Would Bring Housing Stability to Nearly 1 Million Low-Income Americans

3.8.24

Congress Passes FY24 THUD Funding Bill; Several CLPHA Priorities Included

MTW Contracts Extended, RAD Sunset Date Extended, Public Housing Fund Increased Over FY23 Levels

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Action Alerts

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.