"With rents getting that high it seems like you are paying for nice prices for lower-income neighborhoods," Zepeda said.

Rep. Steven Horsford, Nevada Congressman, has filed the Housing Oversight, Mitigation, and Exploitation Act, also known as the HOME ACT. The law would penalize corporate investors who are renting or selling property at unreasonable prices and put monies into a fund to be used for affordable housing.

Democratic Rep. Steven Horsford raised more than $866,000 during the second quarter, and will report nearly $2.5 million in cash on hand entering July, his campaign told The Nevada Independent Wednesday.

Following Horsford’s strongest fundraising quarter of the election cycle so far, his campaign announced on Tuesday that it was launching a half-million dollar advertising campaign that will stretch into the fall with a specific focus on Congressional District 4’s Latino electorate.

Congress sent President Joe Biden legislation to curb gun violence, including a provision introduced as a separate bill by Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV) last year that would provide funding for community violence intervention programs.

The House approved the $13 billion bill — the first time Congress has passed gun control legislation since the now-expired 1994 assault weapons ban was enacted — Friday on a 234 to 193 vote, with all but 14 Republicans opposing the package. Nevada’s House Democrats backed it, while Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) voted against the measure.

“National Republicans know that their path to controlling the House runs through District One, and this result sends a clear message that the people of Southern Nevada will not be divided,” Titus said in a statement. “This is the most crucial election of our lifetimes. From voting rights and reproductive freedom to economic recovery and workers’ rights, there is too much at stake to sit on the sidelines.”

Horsford joined U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge on Monday to tour affordable housing complexes in Southern Nevada and speak on federal initiatives being used to combat the housing crisis.

And Horsford said some of the rising cost of housing is the result of corporate investors. “I have no problem with some level of adjustments that are reasonable and fair,” Horsford said. “I have a big problem with corporate investors that are gouging consumers and my constituents in the name of profit at a time when we are trying to recover.”

“We have made significant progress in the last decade in clean energy generation; however, we are simply not doing enough to incentivize investments for the required transmission capacity,” Horsford wrote. “Tax incentives have proven to be a major signal to investors to put their capital behind wind, solar and geothermal. We should encourage the same type of growth for the infrastructure that will deliver the power from these resources to market.”

Developing Nevada’s rural solar and geothermal resources, Horsford said, would create jobs and accelerate the state’s economic recovery and help the state achieve its clean energy goals. That development, however, depends on strong electric transmission infrastructure.

Nevada’s Democratic incumbents in Congress continued to outraise their Republican opponents through April and May, as spending in several competitive Republican primaries intensified ahead of the start of early voting.

Nevada Rep. Steven Horsford (D) introduced a bill that would provide a $300 monthly tax credit to offset historically high gas prices, his office announced on Wednesday.

It's called the Supporting Americans from Vehicle Energy Costs (SAVE) Act.

U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., will hold a news conference 10 a.m. Thursday at the Nevada Energy Office to highlight the $38 million Nevada will receive from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to expand the state’s electric vehicle charging network.