Point of View articles are by current NLIHC President & CEO Diane Yentel. Below is a listing of articles by date.
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HUD published today its Disparate Impact proposed rule, the latest of HUD Secretary Carson’s efforts to gut fair housing protections. With this proposal, Secretary Carson would dismantle a critical enforcement tool for combatting discrimination, further restricting access to housing for people…
This week, the Trump Administration will publish its final “public charge” rule, part of a sweeping and ongoing government-wide assault on immigrants. The administration designed this latest policy to do the greatest harm to low-income immigrants and their children by severely restricting their…
(Taken from Diane’s forward to the 30th anniversary edition of Out of Reach, which will be released tomorrow, June 18.)
This year marks the 30th anniversary of NLIHC’s Out of Reach. The first edition’s subtitle was Why Everyday People Can’t Find Affordable Housing. The report, then a paper booklet…
I’ve never before called policy proposals hateful, but Secretary Carson’s latest series of them are just that. He proposes policies designed to increase homelessness and suffering, and even the risk of violence or death, for some of our country’s most vulnerable people. The cruelty, it seems, is…