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Thursday, October 27, 2005

Federal housing miscellany

- Postmortem comments are up from the NLIHC and OMB Watch folks who tried to stop yesterday's passage of HR 1461, the GSEs bill with the anti-voter-registration measure. The focus now shifts to the Senate version, S. 190. [MORE: Here's the NYT writeup of yesterday's House action.]

- Also in Congress yesterday: Senate defeat of a proposed home energy assistance increase. And NAHRO expresses concern about possible budget cuts in the TT/HUD appropriations reconciliation negotiations.

- A federal court order has set an end to the long-running and expensive investigation into former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros.

- David Smith has been outdoing himself again on the subject of the New Orleans rebuilding. There's even poetry.

- Government Computer News tells how HUD and other agencies handled their Katrina disaster response via BlackBerry.
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