Obama Budget Focuses on Infrastructure, Revitalization
By Jason Jordan APA Director of Policy and Government Affairs President Obama has released his budget proposal for fiscal year 2014, sending to Congress his vision for programmatic spending levels in...
View ArticleBudget Proposes Reduction in Water Infrastructure Financing
By Olivia Starr APA Government Affairs Associate Despite proposed increases on infrastructure elsewhere in the FY 2014 budget, one of the President’s biggest proposed cuts to the Environmental...
View ArticlePresident Proposes ‘Promise Zones,’ Choice Neighborhoods Expansion
By Tess Hembree Policy Manager, Advocacy Associates The President’s FY 2014 budget request focuses strongly on “creating ladders of opportunity” to the middle class, and community revitalization plays...
View ArticleTransportation Budget Proposes $50b in Immediate Investment
By Allison Leach Senior Program Manager, Advocacy Associates Investing in infrastructure to strengthen America’s economy is once again a major theme of the Obama administration’s budget request. The FY...
View ArticleCDBG, HOME Cut in President’s Budget Request
By Tess Hembree Policy Manager, Advocacy Associates The Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG) and the HOME Investment Partnership program took steep cuts in the President’s FY14 budget...
View ArticleBudget Proposes Major Changes to Sustainable Communities Initiative
By Tess Hembree Policy Manager, Advocacy Associates In an effort to rejuvenate the unauthorized, defunded Sustainable Communities Initiative at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD),...
View ArticleProposed Budget Expands Land and Water Conservation Fund
By Tess Hembree Policy Manager, Advocacy Associates In his FY 2014 budget proposal, President Obama reaffirmed his commitment to the goals laid out in his America’s Great Outdoors Initiative (AGO),...
View Article$40 Billion Rail Reauthorization Proposal Included in Budget
By Allison Leach Senior Program Manager, Advocacy Associates With two important rail laws schedule to expire at the end of FY 2013, the administration’s budget request comes at a critical time for rail...
View ArticleBudget Supports Revitalization of Manufacturing Communities
By Olivia Starr APA Government Affairs Associate Several community revitalization initiatives in the President’s recently released FY 2014 budget focus on strengthening manufacturing communities...
View ArticleHUD Calls for New Limits on CDBG Grants, Eligibility
By Tess Hembree Policy Manager, Advocacy Associates The President’s budget request released earlier this month includes proposed reforms to CDBG entitlement communities that could impact smaller...
View ArticleHouse Slashes Transportation, Housing, Community Development Spending
By Tess Hembree Policy Manager, Advocacy Associates The House Appropriations Committee last week released its spending levels for the upcoming fiscal year, severely cutting funding for Transportation,...
View ArticleBipartisan Push to Preserve Tax-Exemption for Municipal Bonds
By Jason Jordan APA Director of Policy and Government Affairs Municipal bonds are the primary tool for local governments to fund vital infrastructure projects. According to new report from the National...
View ArticleTHUD — The Sound of the Failing Appropriations Process
By Tess Hembree Policy Manager, Advocacy Associates At the beginning of the week, it appeared that the House and Senate Transportation, Housing and Urban Development bills were on a fast pace for final...
View ArticleFront Row Seats for the Budget Showdown
By Olivia Starr APA Government Affairs Associate As Congress threatens fiscal Armageddon yet again, APA will be sitting in the front row at the 2013 Federal Policy & Program Briefing. On Twitter,...
View ArticleShutdown to Budget Showdown — THUD Funding in the Crossfire
By Tess Hembree Policy Manager, Advocacy Associates The most important debate that will happen this fall in Washington hasn’t happened yet. Reopening the government and avoiding a default on the...
View ArticleYears-Long Spending Debate Resolved with Budget Deal
By Tess Hembree Policy Manager, Advocacy Associates In a surprising moment of bipartisanship, Congress appeared to have reached an agreement last week that would put an end to the frequent fiscal...
View ArticleNew Congressional Funding Package Boosts Key Transportation, Housing Programs
By Tess Hembree and Jason Jordan Update — 1/16/2014 9:46 a.m.: The House approved the omnibus spending bill last night in a bipartisan vote of 359-67. The Senate will begin consideration of it today,...
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