Senate appropriations followup

Here's Reuters on the Senate Appropriations action Friday, which included saving the Community Development Block Grants. More details at NLIHC, along with the news that the newly proposed Senate counterpart to the HR 1461 GSE's bill does not contain the affordable housing fund that had been sought in the House version. Oh -- and just in time for this year's definite defeat of the "Strengthening America's Communities" proposal, the advisory committee has released its recommendations. Well, as those Red Sox fans kept on saying, there's always next year.