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U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the Fair Housing Act is a win for working...

The Center for Community Change applauded the ruling today by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the 1968 Fair Housing Act, which allows Americans to live where they choose and protects them from discrimination in housing based on race.

Statement from NAHB Chairman Tom Woods on Health Reimbursement Arrangements Legislation

Tom Woods, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and a home builder from Blue Springs, Mo., today issued the following statement on bipartisan health care legislation introduced in both the House and Senate

Statement from NAHB Chairman Tom Woods on Supreme Court Fair Housing Act Ruling

Tom Woods, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and a home builder from Blue Springs, Mo., issued the following statement on the U.S. Supreme Court’s Fair Housing Act ruling

Supreme Court Upholds Disparate Impact Liability, With Note of Caution

The U.S. Supreme Court decided to uphold disparate impact liability under the Fair Housing Act, a legal theory that prohibits neutrally-applied practices with a disproportionate impact on minority groups protected by the law, even without proving an intent to discriminate. The 5-4 decision in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. alsoemphasized limitations on the policy, stating that neutrally-applied practices should not fail on disparate impact grounds unless they are “artificial, arbitrary and unnecessary.”

Three South Florida Defendants Charged in $10 Million Government Fraud Involving Six Miami Low-Income...

Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Nadine Gurley, Special Agent in Charge, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Inspector General (HUD-OIG), and Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announced the filing of charges against three defendants in a joint investigation of individuals who fraudulently obtained federal money and property in connection with the construction of low-income housing developments in Miami-Dade County.

Mayor Lee’s Statement On Board Of Supervisors Budget & Finance Committee Unanimous Approval Of...

Mayor Edwin M. Lee issued the following statement regarding the Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee on voting unanimously to support a historic record of additional investments –with $25 million specifically targeted for the further production of permanently affordable housing Citywide – in the City’s two-year balanced budget for Fiscal Year 2015-16 and 2016-17

Nation’s Wealthiest Families Behind the Effort to Kill the Estate Tax

Just nine families could dodge $25.7 billion in taxes, and perhaps as much as $54.7 billion, if the estate tax were repealed. Half of these families have spent more than a million dollars apiece lobbying Congress to repeal the tax between 2012 and the first quarter of 2015, a new Public Citizen report shows. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a repeal of the estate tax in April.

ACLU Comment on Supreme Court Ruling in Housing Discrimination Case

In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that the 1968 Fair Housing Act continues to protect victims of discrimination, even where they cannot prove intent to discriminate.

Harvard Releases State of the Nation’s Housing 2015

The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University has released The State of the Nation's Housing 2015 and this is what it says about our PROGRESS IN REDUCING HOMELESSNESS and the role supportive housing is playing, effectively getting people off our streets and keeping them housed:

Buy-Back Program Exceeds $500 Million Paid to Landowners for Voluntary Consolidation of Fractional Interests

In a major milestone for the Department of the Interior’s Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations (Buy-Back Program), Deputy Secretary Michael Connor today announced that more than $500 million has been paid to more than 24,000 individual landowners to restore the equivalent of nearly 850,000 acres of land to tribal governments

NLIHC Continues to Urge Congress to End Sequester Caps in Wake of Passage of...

The Senate Appropriations Committee passed the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) FY16 spending bill this morning in a vote of 20 to10. Four Democrats—Senators Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), and Brian Schatz (D-HI)—voted with all 16 Committee Republicans in support of the bill

Critical Infrastructure Protection Act (CIPA) Passage Out of Homeland Security Committee is Decisive Step...

The Committee on Homeland Security passed theCritical Infrastructure Protection Act (CIPA), important legislation to protect Americans from an electromagnetic pulse (EMP), a threat experts consider one of the most serious risks to our national security. Rep. Trent Franks along with Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Michael McCaul, and Chairman of the Rules Committee, Rep. Pete Sessions, released the following statements

Citizens Bank provides $50 million apartment construction loan for Hyde Park housing near University...

Citizens Bank announced today that it has provided a $50 million apartment construction loan to an affiliate of Blue Vista Capital Management for a mixed-use apartment project serving the Hyde Park and Kenwood neighborhoods of Chicago. The housing project will be built in partnership with the University of Chicago

Mortgage Performance Improved During the First Quarter of 2015

The performance of first-lien mortgages serviced by eight national banks improved during the first quarter of 2015, according to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) quarterly report on mortgage performance

Wyden Statement at Finance Committee Hearing on Spurring Private Investment in Transportation Infrastructure

A lot of Americans wonder if Congress can organize a two-car parade. When you look at 33 consecutive short-term patches for infrastructure funding, it sure seems like Congress can’t pave the parade route either.

ABA Statement on Supreme Court Decision on Use of Disparate Impact Under the Fair...

?“ABA and our members are strong advocates for fair lending and enforcement of the Fair Housing Act. Disparate Impact theory, however, is not the right tool to achieve fairness and prevent discrimination in lending. This approach can have unintended consequences, such as causing financial institutions to shrink their operations rather than risk litigation, hurting the very groups it is intended to help.

CAP President Neera Tanden on Today’s King v. Burwell Supreme Court Decision

CAP President Neera Tanden released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision to affirm key aspects of the Affordable Care Act: After wasting time, precious federal resources, and a lot of energy, the Supreme Court rejected the second attempt to undermine the Affordable Care Act

Norton Says Supreme Court Decision Vindicates Major Tool of Fair Housing Act, Strengthening Fight...

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a former chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and a constitutional lawyer, released the following statement after today 5-4 Supreme Court ruling to uphold a key provision of the 1968 Fair Housing Act (FHA), which bars discrimination on the basis of race in housing decisions

Statement from Sheila Crowley, President and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition...

Today, as the Supreme Court issued its decision in the matter of Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, we are reminded that we all benefit when we have a full and effective Fair Housing Act

Ruben Valdez Named Store Manager of Edinburg McCoy’s Building Supply

Valdez is a thirty-three year McCoy’s veteran with a strong track record of leadership and thirty-one years of management experience. During his tenure with McCoy’s, Valdez and his wife, Velma, raised four children while he managed stores in in San Antonio, McAllen, Mission and most recently Harlingen.

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Support Ukrainian Refugees

GFP Real Estate and Its Tenants Raise More Than $200,000 to...

GFP Real Estate is pleased to announce that its "Support Ukraine in Crisis" campaign raised more than $200,000 to support humanitarian relief efforts on the ground in Ukraine.

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