• Homelessness; Project based vouchers cap; Reallocation of vouchers for high need areas.
• Liaison with White House, federal agencies and congressional officials on behalf of County regarding DC visits and general priorities/initiatives: housing and homelessness.

Duration: January 1, 2009 to present

General Issues: Housing, Urban Development/Municipalities, Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $1,920,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2009: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), White House Office, State - Dept of (DOS), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD),, U.S. Senate,, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Education - Dept of