NLIHC believes in just communities, where all community members have access to economic and educational opportunities as well as affordable housing.
NLIHC supports:
- Improvements to HUD's Consolidated Plan requirements, including the duty to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing.
- Regional administration of the voucher program.
- Evaluation and expansion of the Small Area FMR program.
- Principles to guide reform of federally required planning processes to achieve inter-departmental coordination.
- Deeper income targeting and more targeted eligible uses in the CDBG program.
For more information, contact Ed Gramlich, Regulatory Director, at [email protected] or 202.662.1530 x314. Members of the media should contact Renee Willis, Vice President for Field and Communications, at [email protected] or 202.662.1530 x247.
Planning for Just Communities Resources
Community Change released on January 25 the New Deal for Housing Justice: A Housing Playbook for the New Administration. The project presents federal policy recommendations centering racial justice and equitable access to affordable housing. NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel served on the…
The Movement for Black Lives released the “BREATHE Act” on September 24, a sweeping proposal to divest resources from policing and incarceration and invest in a new vision of community safety focused on non-carceral approaches and building sustainable, equitable communities. The bill includes…
Senate Democrats announced a proposal on July 16 to invest $350 billion in communities of color, including specific policies that would increase investments in affordable housing and promote racial equity in homeownership. The “Economic Justice Act” proposes to provide communities of color…
Senator Todd Young (R-IN) introduced on June 20 the “Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY) Act” (S. 1919), which aims to increase transparency and encourage affordable housing development in more communities by requiring Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) recipients to explain why they do not implement…