While we identify several ways in which FEMA services could be improved, we urge the Council to retain FEMA’s role and to work to increase its efficiency; moving to a state block-grant model will only further undermine efficient disaster response and recovery at a time when natural disasters are increasing. FEMA remains a lifeline to…
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To Leaders Thune and Schumer, Speaker Johnson, and Leader Jeffries: We, the 1,573 undersigned national, state, and local organizations, write to oppose efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Secretary Scott Turner to terminate at least half of all employees at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). This is a…
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Letter from 43 organizations urging CFPB, OCC, FHFA, FHA, and other federal regulators to help protect the credit reports and scores of consumers impacted by natural or declared disasters such as Hurricanes Helene and Milton
These are comments to the California Public Utilities Commission in support of TURN’s extreme heat protection recommendations and in support of opening a rulemaking regarding extreme heat protections.
Absent a federal requirement, far too many states and local governments will continue to promulgate ownership requirements that exclude heirs property owners and other survivors without conventional documentation of title.
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