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Members press to preserve emergency housing vouchers, public‑housing repairs during reconciliation markup
Summary
Several lawmakers pressed the committee to restore or add funding for emergency housing vouchers, public‑housing capital repairs and HUD resiliency programs while committee majority maintained these cuts are budgetary savings required by the reconciliation instruction.
Lawmakers across the House Financial Services Committee used the reconciliation markup to press for more funding to address homelessness and the deteriorating condition of public housing, including emergency housing vouchers, an infusion into the public‑housing capital fund and continued support for green and resilient retrofits.
Representative Maxine Waters offered an amendment she described as protecting hundreds of families by renewing funding for emergency housing vouchers (EHV), a program created through the American Rescue Plan Act that Waters said has housed tens of thousands of households. “I sent a letter to you earlier this month asking that you join me in keeping hundreds of people in Arkansas housed by renewing funding for emergency housing vouchers,” Waters said. In her remarks she cited the $5,000,000,000 in ARPA funding that created the initial EHV program…
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