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Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen Announces New Initiatives to Lower Housing Costs on Behalf of the Biden Administration

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Last week, Treasury Secretary Yellen announced new efforts by the Treasury Department to increase the nation’s housing supply. Some of the initiatives Secretary Yellen discussed included...more

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DOE Announces Availability of $225 million for Tribal Home Electrification Program

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On November 17, 2023, the Department of Energy Office of State and Community Energy Programs (DOE OCEP) announced the final program requirements for the Tribal Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates Program (the “Tribal...more

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HUD Programs During a Government Shutdown

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The 2024 Federal Fiscal Year (FFY2024) begins on October 1, 2023, and as of the writing of this Alert, Congress has not passed and the President has not signed a bill to provide funding for FFY2024. As a result, federal...more

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President Biden Announces Executive Actions to Combat Climate Change

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President Joe Biden announced a series of executive actions to combat climate change during a July 20, 2022, speech in Somerset, Massachusetts, from the base of a former coal-fired power plant where offshore wind energy...more

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Gold Dome Report – Legislative Day 23 2022

The Georgia House put in a full day on Thursday, taking up twelve propositions across two Rules Calendars before adjourning near 4PM. Representatives unanimously approved a bill strengthening Georgia’s Childhood Lead Exposure...more

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Build Back Better: All Eyes on the Senate

The Big Picture - On November 19, the House of Representatives passed the Build Back Better Act (BBB) (H.R. 5376) by a vote of 220–213. The BBB contains a number of health and social policy priorities that are widely viewed...more

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Restorative Investing: How The Impact Investing Model Could Be Used To Support Vulnerable Communities In The Time Of COVID-19

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For the second time in a little over a decade, the United States is facing an economic crisis on a near-unprecedented scale, while simultaneously battling the worst pandemic in over a century. To date, over 80,000 people have...more

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HUD Issues COVID-19 FAQs for Housing Authorities

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HUD issued “COVID-19 FAQs for Public Housing Agencies” on March 30, 2020, with an updated version 2 circulated on March 31, 2020 (the FAQ). The FAQ covers frequently asked questions...more

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Community Health Centers Receive Quality Improvement Grants

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Just over one year ago, I wrote about the Department of Health and Human Service’s (“HHS”) $105 million award to support 1,333 federally qualified health centers (“Health Centers”) across the United States improve the quality...more

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Impacts of the Omnibus Spending Plan on the Affordable Housing Industry

Trump’s Omnibus Spending Plan adopts two key provisions from the proposed Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act that will strengthen and expand low-income housing credit. 2018 spending plan increases housing credit...more

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The Bipartisan Budget Act Boosts Medicare: Flexibility and Financing for Healthcare Plans and Providers

On Friday, February 9, 2018, President Trump signed the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (the “Budget”), a two-year budget which, in significant part, made substantial revisions to Medicare, including the Medicare Advantage (MA)...more

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Trump Administration Releases FY 2019 Budget Proposing 18.3% Reduction in HUD Funding

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This week, the Trump administration released its proposed budget for the 2019 fiscal year. Overall, the budget proposes an $8.8 billion (18.3%) reduction in the HUD budget from the 2017 enacted level, a more drastic cut than...more

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Budget Deal Addresses Health Benefit Issues

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The Congressional agreement that reopened the federal government for three weeks quietly addressed—at least temporarily—several high-profile issues affecting public and private health benefits. ...more

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Uncertainty Surrounds Low Income Pool (LIP) Funding

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), in an August 3, 2017 letter to Florida’s Medicaid Director, approved a five-year extension of the State’s 1115 demonstration project, the Managed Medical Assistance...more

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Education Newsletter: Volume 1, Number 2

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House Bill 2078 (signed April 17, 2017) - This bill restructures post-secondary credit system for high school students. Unlike dual enrollment programs, a student enrolled in concurrent coursework will attend regular...more

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McClain Weighs in on Potential Effect of Trump Budget Cuts on Affordable Housing

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In an interview with U.S. News and World Reports on “The Future of Affordable Housing in the Trump Era,” Amy McClain, who leads Ballard Spahr’s government-assisted housing practice (and is a frequent Housing Plus blogger),...more

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Administration’s OMB budget blueprint proposes 13% cut and elimination of many HUD programs

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The Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) released the Trump administration’s budget blueprint today, providing a general overview of the budget request it intends to present to Congress later this Spring. As outlined, the...more

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