WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II chairs the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development and Insurance. “It is my great honor to be selected by my colleagues as the chair of the Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development and Insurance,” Cleaver said. “As someone who spent the first several years of my life living in a shack with no electricity or running water – and several more after that in public housing – I understand how pivotal stable housing is to realizing the American dream. I look forward to working with Chairwoman (Maxine) Waters and my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to do everything in our power to expand our nation’s affordable housing stock, end homelessness in America and confront the scourge of this pandemic in our communities and insurance market.” The Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development and Insurance has oversight of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, as well as broad jurisdiction over…