Chair: Rep. Laura Hall (AL)

1st Vice Chair: Del. Michael Vaughn (MD)

2nd Vice Chair: Rep. Charmaine Stiaes (LA)

Policy Staff: Reginald Abreu

MISSION STATEMENT

This committee develops policies to address the Nation’s housing problems. It examines state and federal policies and regulations that address homeownership, housing, mortgage lending discrimination, low-income housing, predatory lending, homelessness, land use planning, neighborhood revitalization, eminent domain, and related issues.

RESOURCES AND USEFUL LINKS

Congressional Committees
House Financial Services Committee http://financialservices.house.gov

Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs http://banking.senate.gov

Eminent Domain
http://www.castlecoalition.org

Home Loans
Fannie Mae
http://www.fanniemae.com

Fannie Mae Foundation Home Buying Guides
http://www.homebuyingguide.org/

Freddie Mac
http://www.freddiemac.com/

GovLoans.gov
http://www.govloans.gov/

HFC Foreclosure Avoidance Program
http://acornhousing.org/TEXT/fap.php

Mortgage Bankers Association Home Loan Learning Center
http://www.homeloanlearningcenter.com

National Association of Real Estate Brokers
http://www.nareb.com/

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Buying a Home Guide
http://www.hud.gov/buying/index.cfm

Americans for Fairness in Lending
http://www.affil.org

Center for Responsible Lending
http://www.responsiblelending.org

National Community Reinvestment Coalition
http://www.ncrc.org/

Homelessness
National Coalition for the Homeless
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Homeless Assistance Programs
http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/homeless/programs/index.cfm

Homeownership
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation With Ownership, Wealth (WOW) Initiative
http://www.cbcfinc.org/Economic%20Development/WOW/index.html

Fannie Mae Affordable Housing
http://www.fanniemae.com/housingcommdev/

Housing Discrimination
The Urban Institute
http://www.urban.org

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
http://www.hud.gov/offices/fheo/index.cfm

Low-Income Housing
ACORN Housing
http://www.acornhousing.org/index.php

Habitat for Humanity
http://www.habitat.org

HOPE VI (Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere)
http://www.hud.gov/offices/pih/programs/ph/hope6/

National Low Income Housing Coalition
http://www.nlihc.org/

Neighborhood Revitalization
Fannie Mae Community Development
http://www.fanniemae.com/housingcommdev/

Home Mortgage Disclosure Act
http://www.ffiec.gov/hmda/

National Community Reinvestment Coalition
http://www.ncrc.org/

National Congress for Community Economic Development
http://www.ncced.org/

NeighborWorks America
http://www.nw.org/network/home.asp

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Economic Development Programs
http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/index.cfm

Gulf Coast Reconstruction
The Road Home (LA)
http://www.road2la.org/

Louisiana Rebuilds
http://www.louisianarebuilds.info/

Mississippi Governor’s Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal
http://www.mississippirenewal.com/