Chair: Rep. Laura Hall (AL)

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

2nd Vice Chair: Representative Charmaine Stiaes (LA)

Policy Staff: Reginald Abreu

MISSION STATEMENT

This committee develops policies and solutions to the nation’s housing problem. It examines state and federal policies and regulations that address homeownership, housing and mortgage lending discrimination, low-income housing, predatory lending practices, 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/