NLIHC's Katrina Washington news

The latest NLIHC Memo to Members appeared today with detailed news of housing-related disaster relief moves by Congress and federal agencies. In the course of which it has retrieved an interesting item from the memory hole:

HUD’s initial statement of response to the hurricane, since removed from HUD’s website, proposed a housing subsidy of $10,000 per household displaced, regardless of household income, to supplement temporary housing costs for one year. Private landlords, family members, faith-based organizations, shelters or friends would have been eligible to receive the money for housing a displaced family. The status of this plan is unknown.

Other notes include the creation of a disaster task force by the Interagency Council on Homelessness.

In non-disaster news NLIHC also notes the House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a markup for tomorrow on HR 1461, the GSEs bill. [UPDATE: They've since canceled the markup.] And it makes recommendations on possible recourse for housing authorities that have newly lost permission to use "Fair Market Rents" from the 50th instead of the 40th percentile.