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Community partners and public- and private- sector stakeholders came together yesterday to celebrate the Grand Opening of MidPen Housing’s Jessie Street Terrace in Santa Cruz. Once a 14-room hotel, Jessie Street Terrace has been transformed into 50 studio and one-bedroom permanent supportive housing apartments for residents earning up to 20-50% of Area Median Income (AMI) ($27,692-$79,100 for households of one to two people).

This week, New Dem Members hosted a roundtable with housing policy experts and industry representatives to solicit ideas on what Congress’s next steps should be to address the affordable housing crisis. New Dem Vice Chair for Outreach Salud Carbajal (CA-24) hosted the roundtable alongside Housing, Infrastructure, & Transportation Working Group Chair Norma Torres (CA-35) and Housing Task Force Chair Emilia Sykes (OH-13).

“More than 32,000 housing discrimination complaints were filed in 2024, and disability-related complaints made up 54.6 percent of all complaints. Decades after the Fair Housing Act amendments and the Americans with Disabilities Act, too many residential buildings continue to be built inaccessibly and in violation of the law, preventing people with disabilities from living there comfortably.

Last week, Senator Reverend Warnock met with Gullah Geechee community members at the historic Harrington School in St. Simons Island to discuss environmental health concerns, land ownership, and cultural preservation. Community members discussed high levels of toxic chemicals found in the blood of Glynn County residents living near Brunswick Superfund sites

The New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) today announced that $2.2 million has been awarded to help extend the life of a homeless shelter in Erie County and two shelters in Suffolk County. The funding was awarded by OTDA's Homeless Housing and Assistance Program.

As Trump continues to claim affordability is a “hoax” and a “con job,” Americans are feeling the strain of Trump’s policies on their pocketbooks. Headlines from across the country this summer lay bare Trump’s cost-of-living crisis as families get ready to send their kids back to school.

U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, joined a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the grand opening of DreamTree’s NEST Resource Center, a new space in Taos dedicated to helping New Mexicans access emergency housing, basic necessities and internet access, employment opportunities, connections to healthcare providers, case management services, and help navigating federal and state benefits.

On Aug. 11–14, National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Members gathered in Columbus, Ohio, for the organization’s 2026 Summer National Meeting, where they continued addressing the regulatory opportunities and challenges of the modern insurance marketplace.

U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) led members of the Michigan Congressional Delegation in calling on President Trump to swiftly issue a Major Disaster declaration for Michigan following the severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, high winds, large hail, and torrential rainfall across the state in April. In their letter, the lawmakers supported Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s request for assistance for Alcona, Allegan

A federal judge today blocked a HUD plan that would have radically altered a decades-old fair housing grant program and defunded more than 100 private, community-based nonprofit fair housing enforcement organizations, which between them handle three in four housing discrimination complaints filed in this country.

On Saturday, August 22, at the Lou Walker Senior Center, Congressman Hank Johnson held his 2026 H.O.P.E. Awards ceremony to close out his 4th Annual Week of H.O.P.E. The Week of H.O.P.E. (Helping Other People Elevate), which centers around National Nonprofit Day, is a celebration of the nonprofit organizations, leaders, and volunteers who dedicate themselves to improving the lives of others throughout Georgia’s Fourth Congressional District

The Indiana congressional delegation sent a letter to President Donald Trump in support of Governor Mike Braun’s August 20, 2026, request for a major disaster declaration following severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding that began on August 11.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture today released its proposed rule and draft environmental impact statement seeking to rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, a bedrock law that protects 45 million acres of national forests managed by the U.S. Forest Service.

Sen. Tim Nangle, D-Windham, is celebrating the residents of Hidden Circle Mobile Home Park in Jay, who completed their $1 million purchase of the park on July 30, securing local ownership of the land beneath their 31 homes.

On the campaign trail, Trump promised to “end government corruption,” yet nearly every day, Trump and his administration are finding new ways to profiteer off public office. As he sells out American families and weaponizes his government against them, Trump has handed billionaires, cronies, and donors cabinet posts and lucrative government contracts.

Over the past 12 years the Texas Affiliation of Affordable Housing (TAAHP) has awarded more than $930,000 in scholarships to students pursuing higher education. Eligibility is limited to residents of affordable housing communities owned or managed by TAAHP members. The scholarship program was created to support some of Texas’s most vulnerable students as they pursue education as a pathway to self-sufficiency and long-term success.

Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) and Congressman Gabe Amo (D-RI-01) toured the RI Builders residential construction training program in Central Falls and hosted a press conference to highlight the passage of the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, a new law that cuts through red tape, places restrictions on private equity firms buying single family homes, helps communities build new housing, and provides assistance to homeowners to repair their homes.