NHPF 2021 Affordable Housing Advocacy Award Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)
NHPF 2021 Affordable Housing Industry Leader Award Eleanor Holmes Norton, Delegate to US House of Representatives, DC
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, now in her fifteenth term as the Congresswoman for the District of Columbia, is the Chair of the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. She serves on two committees: the Committee on
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is an influential and forceful voice in Washington. She is
serving her fourteenth term as a member of the United States House of Representatives. She represents the 18th Congressional District of Texas, centered in Houston. Considered by many as the “Voice of Reason,” she is dedicated to upholding the Constitutional rights of all people. The representative has sponsored or co-sponsored numerous pieces of affordable housing legislation including: H.R.4497 Housing is Infrastructure Act of 2021, H.R.4496 Ending Homelessness Act of 2021, H.R.4495 Downpayment Toward Equity Act of 2021, H.R.3580 Eviction Prevention Act of 2021, H.R.816 Restoring Communities Left Behind Act, H.Res.234 Acknowledging the history and lasting impact of the Federal Government-created problem of redlining and the responsibility of the Federal Government to address such impact, H.R.7743 We Need Eviction Data Now Act of 2020, H.R.6823 SHELTER Act of 2020, Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act of 2020, and many others. She sits on three Congressional Committees—the House Committees on the Judiciary and Homeland Security and appointed as a Member of the crucial Budget Committee. She was named by Congressional Quarterly as one of the 50 most effective Members of Congress and the U.S. News & World Report named her as one of the 10 most influential legislators in the U.S. House of Representatives. Also, the Center for Effective Lawmaking, a joint initiative between the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt University, named her the 2nd most effective Democrat in Congress during the 114th Congress, the 15th most effective Democrat in Congress during the 115th Congress, and the most effective Democrat in the Texas delegation during the 115th Congress. She is a founder, member, and co-chair of the Congressional Children's Caucus and authored and introduced H.R.83, the Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act of 2013. She is past chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Energy Braintrust and co-chair of the Justice Reform Task Force. She serves as Chief Deputy Whip for the Democratic Caucus, past Chair of the Texas Congressional Democratic Delegation for the 113th Congress, and past Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Board.
Oversight and Reform and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. The representative co-sponsored numerous affordable housing bills including: H.R.5187 Housing is Infrastructure Act of 2020, H.R.1737 American Housing and Economic Mobility Act, S.787 American Housing and Economic Mobility Act, H.R.2169 Rent Relief Act, and many others. Congresswoman Norton's accomplishments in breaking barriers for her disempowered district are matched by her success in bringing home unique economic benefits to her constituents. Among them are significant federal law enforcement positions for the District; up to $10,000 per year for all DC high school graduates to attend any public U.S. college or university and up to $2,500 per year to many private colleges and universities; a unique $5,000 DC homebuyer tax credit, sharply increasing home ownership in the District and was a major factor in stabilizing the city's population; and DC business tax incentives, including a significant wage credit for employing DC residents, which has maintained businesses and residents in the District. Congresswoman Norton also has brought significant economic development to the District of Columbia throughout her service in Congress, creating and preserving jobs in DC. The most significant are her work in bringing to DC the U.S. Department of Homeland Security headquarters compound, now under construction, and is the largest federal construction project in the country; her bill that is developing the 55 acre-Southeast Federal Center, the first private development on federal land; her work that resulted in the relocation of 6,000 jobs to the Washington Navy Yard; and her successful efforts to bring to the District the new headquarters for the U.S. Department of Transportation, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, along with an additional Metro station at New York Avenue, which has resulted in the development of the NOMA neighborhood.
A DECADE OF RENTAL HOUSING VULNERABILITY: LESSONS LEARNED FROM FINANCIAL CRISIS TO CORONAVIRUS • 5
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