NLIHC on displacement rights, grants, more

Items in the new National Low-Income Housing Coalition Memo to Members include: a HUD oversight hearing coming up March 1 at the House Financial Services Committee... a TT-HUD Appropriations hearing in the Senate on March 2... many Katrina recovery updates... publication of a new pamphlet in English and Spanish explaining the augmented rights of displaced tenants under the "Barney Frank Amendment"... an Urban Institute study on HOPE VI displacements and senior citizens... and considerably more, including a call from the Bollinger Foundation for nominations of bereaved families to receive grants "who have lost a parent or guardian where the deceased or surviving parent or guardian worked in the field of public housing, community development, or economic development."