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Options to Stabilize the Highway Trust Fund
Executive Summary At the end of fiscal year 2026, current Highway Trust Fund spending authorizations will expire. The HTF plays a key role in financing investments in roads, bridges, and transit projects nationwide. In 2022, the HTF contributed $50 billion to state and local projects such as building bridges, highways, and purchasing maintenance equipment. Taxes and fees from road users are the primary means of financing the trust fund, with the gas tax foremost among them.
Strong Support Across Partisan Lines for Policies That Boost Housing
Survey finds Republicans, Democrats, and independents all back measures that help promote more supply Article May 29, 2024 By: Tushar Kansal & Andy Winkler Read time: Share Strong Support Across Partisan Lines for Policies That Boost Housing Barry Winiker Getty Images For most Americans, housing is their largest regular expense, but an acute housing shortage of an estimated 4 million to 7 million homes and resulting skyrocketing rents and home prices mean millions more households are...
Bipartisan Policy Center
Congress enacted the Fair Housing Act in April 1968 as an amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1968. The amendment, sponsored by Senators Walter Mondale (D-MN) and Edward Brooke (R-MA), was the culmination of several previously failed attempts to legislate fair housing protections federally.
Findings from BPC’s Survey of HUD CDBG-DR Grantees
BPC developed a survey, in partnership with the Council of State Community Development Agencies, to inform the work of our Disaster Response Reform Task Force and better understand how HUD’s Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery program can better support communities as they recover from devastating and deadly disasters.
Big Idea #6: Provide Education and Incentives for Innovative Finance Approaches
This post is the second post in a series focused on solving the $2 trillion infrastructure funding gap and positioning the United States for the future. Public Private Partnerships (P3) could play a vital role in addressing the nation’s infrastructure needs. However, most state and local officials are lacking in the skills, knowledge and in many cases time, needed to pursue a P3.
Five Ways the Federal Government Is Promoting Falls Prevention for Older Adults
September 22 is not only the first day of fall, but it also marks the tenth annual Falls Prevention Awareness Day. It is a day aimed at raising awareness about fall-related injuries that send older adults to the emergency room every 11 seconds. While these injuries are common and costly for older adults, spreading effective prevention strategies continues to be a challenge. Still, some progress has been made.
Bipartisan Policy Center
The promise of a federal infrastructure package has yet to fully materialize, but it has retained one constant: it will, in some capacity, seek to leverage private capital through public-private partnerships (P3s). But several other crucial details remain unanswered. Most importantly, what types of infrastructure are we talking about. Speculation usually focuses on infrastructure like roads, bridges, rails, and pipes, which are predominantly owned and operated at the local and state levels.
Status of Federal Disaster Assistance Funding
Despite ongoing disaster recovery efforts and urgent hurricane and wildfire-related risks, several federal disaster assistance programs again face an uncertain fiscal outlook. Outlined below are the Biden administration’s outstanding requests for supplemental disaster funding, the key programs such funding would support, and the implications of delayed funding for disaster-impacted communities.
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