At a congressional hearing on Thursday, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge explained how "not-in-my-backyard" syndrome stymies the supply of affordable housing in "communities of opportunity."
HUD Secretary: Not ‘Every Single Illegal Resident’ Wants to Scam the System Through Waived Housing Voucher Regulation By Melanie Arter | May 21, 2021 | 11:24am EDT
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge, testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on April 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by OLIVER CONTRERAS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge denied Thursday that her agency’s decision to waive a regulation requiring emergency housing vouchers to prove their legal status will “in any significant way” increase the risk that illegal immigrants will obtain housing vouchers that are meant for U.S. citizens.
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The Ohio Congressional candidate and former Bernie surrogate speaks with Rolling Stone for the latest installment of “The Next Wave,” a series on the new leaders who will shape America’s future
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October 2019 feels like a lifetime ago. Covid-19 didn’t exist yet. Donald Trump was president. George Floyd was alive.
And on a sunny, brisk fall day in Queens, New York, in a baseball field under a bridge across the street from the country’s biggest public housing project (Queensbridge, which birthed rap legends like Nas and Mobb Deep), a balding U.S. senator from Vermont held a rally.
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Oval Office meeting. Photo credit: Pool/Getty Images
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met with Republican senators last week. Pool/Getty Images
The effort to strike a bipartisan deal on infrastructure will continue this week, as Republicans are readying a counteroffer, two congressional committees will hash out how to pay for it all and lawmakers are jockeying to get their wish lists inserted into a final package.
Following last week s White House summit between President Biden and top GOP senators, Republicans say they could have an infrastructure counteroffer soon.
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), who is leading talks for Republicans, described the meeting as very positive.