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Cortez Masto Secures Over $6 Million in Funding for Affordable Housing in Nevada

This is a press release issued on July 7, 2026

Note: A housing project in Mesquite is included in this funding.

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) applauded news that that the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLBank) of San Francisco has awarded $6.2 million in funding to help build affordable housing units throughout Nevada. Senator Cortez Masto has consistently encouraged the FHLBank of San Francisco to invest in housing for Nevadans, and she is proud to have secured these Affordable Housing Program Nevada Targeted Fund grants to create or preserve 218 housing units across six projects.

“Every family in Nevada deserves to have a safe, affordable place to call home. This critical funding gets us one step closer to achieving that goal,” said Senator Cortez Masto. “I look forward continuing to work with Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco to invest in communities throughout the Silver State.”

“We are proud to support projects that strengthen communities and increase access to stable, affordable housing throughout Nevada,” said Tom Dapice, community investment officer at FHLBank San Francisco. “Through our collaboration with Senator Cortez Masto, our member financial institutions, and affordable housing developers across the state, these grants will help create and preserve affordable homes for Nevada families, seniors, and other residents who need them most.”

Recently, the FHLBank of San Francisco has been making historic investments in affordable housing throughout Nevada. This year, the FHLBank invested 20 percent of its income in affordable housing and other voluntary programs, double the required 10 percent. In addition to these six grants, the FHLBank also invested $27 million in Nevada Housing Division bonds so far this year. It has also provided Nevadans more than five million dollars in grants for downpayment assistance and Tribal investments. Senator Cortez Masto will continue to collaborate with her partners at the FHLBank and its members and stakeholders to increase the supply of homes available to working Nevadans.

More detailed information about the projects receiving the FHLBank funding can be found here and here.

For years, Senator Cortez Masto has encouraged the nation’s 11 FHLBanks use their resources to invest in housing and community development. Following her push, banks, credit unions, state housing finance agencies, community development financial institutions (CDFIs), and other similar organizations have sought more opportunities to benefit from this government-sponsored enterprise. Thanks to Cortez Masto’s efforts, the FHLBanks have invested more than 90 million dollars in affordable housing in Nevada. Cortez Masto has also introduced legislation to enable CDFIs and credit unions to finance more community development investments.

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LINK: https://www.cortezmasto.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cortez-masto-secures-over-6-million-in-funding-for-affordable-housing-in-nevada/

Using Food As A Weapon

Opinion

Hunger is not a crime. A person who is unemployed, down on his luck, homeless, elderly, disabled or ill, a child, or any circumstance whereby one needs a government subsidy to stave off hunger — that person is not a criminal.

Food should not be a reward or punishment in the wealthiest nation on earth.

Earlier this year the (supposed) richest man on earth gleefully cut our government’s food distribution to the poorest people on the planet through USAID. He wielded a bejeweled chain saw onstage to celebrate, ignoring that he had no mandate from the people or authorization from Congress to do that.

This week we’ve been treated to the spectacle of gilded gifts, including an ACTUAL GOLD CROWN being bestowed on our wannabee monarch who is on an Asian tour. This is the fourth week of a federal government shutdown which is hurting all Americans, but mostly government workers and agencies which rely on a functioning government, which has stopped functioning. On purpose.

Food subsidies (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP) get cut off tomorrow, Saturday, November 1. Food is now a weapon in the hands of the sociopaths atop our government.

Here is what we must do. Support our food banks. N.O.W. They are more reliant on donors than ever before. One food bank manager said she senses panic setting in, much like we experienced during COVID, but she calmly stated that we cannot panic. No, we cannot. We can take action instead.

Food banks cannot fully step into the breach of the impact of SNAP benefits being cut, but they can help — if we help them.

Mesquite to Moapa Democrats are collecting checks for the Virgin Valley Food Bank, Parade of Lights Corporation (Salvation Army in Mesquite) and the Cappalappa Family Resource Center in Moapa Valley.

If you prefer bringing food or personal items, they are requesting canned tuna, chicken, soups, Progresso soup, beans, fruit, pasta sauce, spaghetti, mac and cheese, Hamburger Helper, peanut butter, jam, cereal or toothpaste, soap, laundry detergent, shampoo, toilet paper, tissue, paper towels, diapers, baby wipes, feminine hygiene, disposable razors and hand sanitizers.

You can drop off to The Meeting Spot, 312 West Mesquite Boulevard, Suite 103 (next to the Virgin Valley Food Bank, facing 1st Street South) on Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday from 10 a.m. until noon during Democrats business hours. If you need a special drop off time, call or text 702-715-8403 and one of our volunteers will meet you there.

We can’t let them beat us at this cruel game. This is an emergency. We are asking you to help in whatever way you can to feed those who need us.

Thank you.

Legal Update – This afternoon a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to continue paying food stamps to the 42 million Americans who rely on them to purchase groceries. Another federal judge is weighing in on a different complaint on Monday. The courts may come through, there may be appeals which hold up distribution, the government may refuse to comply — we have an array of unknowns. For now, let’s take action steps and help our neighbors.