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On August 2, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled “‘The Rent Eats First’: How Renters and Communities are Impacted by Today’s Housing Market.”

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the Closing America’s Wastewater Access Gap Community Initiative.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced new guidance to increase the ability of state, local and tribal governments to use American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds to boost the supply of affordable housing in their communities.

A new report from Up for Growth, Housing Underproduction in the U.S., found that housing underproduction in the U.S. reached 3.8 million homes in 2019, up from 1.6 million in 2012.

Last week the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on The Role of Tax Incentives in Affordable Housing.

Last week, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 8249, a “minibus” appropriations package that contains six FY 2023 appropriations bills, including the FY 2023 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) and FY 2023 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies spending bills.

In a new blog post for the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, Whitney Airgood-Obrycki and Alexander Hermann demonstrate that the share of renter households with cost burdens rose nearly three percentage points from 2019 to 2020.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) will pause acceptance of new CDFI Certification Applications and requests for Target Market modifications for a period of six months beginning on Oct. 1, 2022.

Registration is open for HUD’s bi-monthly Fair Housing series of virtual office hours.

The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) recently published an Advanced Energy Design Guide (AEDG) for Multifamily Buildings.

Oklahoma City issued a Request for Proposals (RFP-OCITY-128) for construction or rehabilitation of Affordable Housing.

HUD recently released a $365 million package to address unsheltered homelessness and homeless encampments, including $54.5 million in funds set aside specifically to address homelessness in rural communities. New