Congress needs to hear from you! Please contact your senators today and urge them to immediately pass a robust disaster aid package that includes funding for all impacted areas.
Despite the tremendous need for federal assistance in disaster-impacted areas, Congress has been unable to reach an agreement that would allow it to enact a robust disaster relief package. If…
NLIHC’s Diane Yentel Authors Op-Ed in CityLab Spotlighting Affordable Homes Crisis, New National Polling on the Issue, and Bold New Plans to Address It
National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) President and CEO Diane Yentel authored an op-ed in CityLab on March 14 calling attention to NLIHC’s newest research on the nation’s lack of affordable…
New Report Published Today: Shortage of 7 Million Apartments for the Nation’s Lowest-Income Renters
NLIHC released today its annual report, The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, which finds a shortage of seven million affordable and available rental homes for extremely low-income renters, those…
Details of Bipartisan HUD and USDA Spending Deal for FY19
Congress has reached a final deal to fund the federal government for the remainder of FY19. In late December, President Trump and congressional leaders had failed to enact several spending bills for…
Opportunity Starts at Home Unveils National Policy Agenda and Urges Congress to Act
The Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector affordable homes campaign released today its national policy agenda, "Within Reach." The campaign makes the case that stronger federal action to ensure…
Update on the Shutdown’s Impact on Housing and How to Take Action
The partial government shutdown, now almost three weeks long, continues with no end in sight. Affordable housing programs and the low-income people they serve are already being impacted. The longer…
NLIHC CEO Diane Yentel Testifies at Housing Finance Reform Hearing, Calls for Expanding the National Housing Trust Fund
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel testified on December 21 before the House Financial Services Committee on the opportunity to expand investments in the national Housing Trust Fund (HTF), the…
House Democrats Move to End Government Shutdown
Parts of the federal government continue to be shut down, as lawmakers and President Trump continue to disagree on funding for a southern border wall. The shutdown has now run for nearly two weeks.…
Federal Government Shuts Down. What Does it Mean for HUD Programs?
Congress failed to pass a stopgap funding measure yesterday, causing parts of the government to shut down at midnight. The Senate had earlier passed a “clean” stopgap funding measure, known as a…
New Op-Ed: ‘Disaster Housing Recovery: Time for Congress to Act’
The Hill published today an op-ed by NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel about the Trump administration’s failure to adequately respond to the deepening housing crisis caused by the California…
UPDATE: Housing Wins
Like most of you, I spent last night glued to local, state, and national election results, and I woke up this morning after too little sleep thinking through what it all means for affordable housing…