Prosperity Now's Statement on HUD’s Proposed Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Regulation
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Prosperity Now's Statement on HUD’s Proposed Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Regulation
The proposed rule that HUD released on Tuesday is not a fair housing rule. It will not improve the implementation or enforcement of the Fair Housing Act. Rather than building on and working to improve the 2015 rule, which would have advanced fair housing, the Administration eliminates it and instead will undercut enforcement, public participation, accountability and access to housing. Read more
Policy
New House Bill Would Fund Manufactured Housing Community Preservation
On January 7, Reps. Cindy Axne (D-IA) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) introduced H.R. 5547, the Manufactured Housing Community Preservation Act, which, if enacted, would be the first meaningful federal program to invest in the preservation of manufactured housing communities. As a match program, the legislation would encourage states, localities and private actors to enter or expand their roles in the preservation of one of the nation’s largest sources of affordable housing. In recent months, Prosperity Now has worked with these House offices and we are very appreciative of their commitments. Read More
Events
Local Voices Informing Federal Action: A symposium on home affordability
Join Habitat for Humanity and our own Doug Ryan, Senior Fellow of Affordable Homeownership, for an important discussion on how local and state action can inform policy solutions at the federal level to address home affordability on a national scale. The symposium will contribute to the overall national dialogue on housing affordability and further the Cost of Home Federal Policy Agenda and other policy solutions to improve home affordability. Register Here
In The News
Detroit Homeowners Overtaxed $600 million
Detroit overtaxed homeowners by at least $600 million after it failed to accurately bring down property values in the years following the Great Recession, according to an investigation by The Detroit News. Of the more than 63,000 Detroit homes with delinquent debt as of last fall, more than 90% were overtaxed—by an average of at least $3,700—between 2010 and 2016, according to calculations by The News. The debt owed on about 40,000 of those homes is less than the properties were overtaxed over those seven years. Read More
In The Network
Does Your Organization Do Work At The Intersection of Housing & Health? We're Looking For You!
Prosperity Now seeks to understand how housing organizations incorporate health into their program outcomes. This can be through offering health-related services but also by recognizing that improving housing stability and quality, in and of itself, can improve health outcomes. Are you interested in participating in a 6-month learning cohort around including health related outcomes into your programs? Please fill out this brief survey.
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