NLIHC has released a Spanish edition of Tenant Talk: Housing is Built with Ballots (La Vivienda Se Construye con Boletas), a publication dedicated to low-income residents and their allies. This…
The U.S. Census Bureau released new aggregate tables from the 1-Year 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) on September 17, showing nearly 20 million renter households are housing cost-burdened.
The…
The Campaign Trail: Presidential Primary Engagement Recap
Voters care deeply about solutions to the affordable housing and homelessness crisis, but to make informed voting choices between…
Dear Readers,
It has been quite the summer. Our last issue in late spring focused on the COVID-19 pandemic and how it would affect low-income renters. Since then, the pandemic has raged around the…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel testified on September 16 before the Senate Budget Committee’s roundtable on Examining Federal Housing Assistance Programs. In her testimony, Diane addressed the…
NLIHC released a Spanish edition of its report Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing 2020 (Fuera de Alcance: El Alto Costo de la Vivienda 2020) on August 25. The report documents the…
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report to Congress on August 13 directly tying increases in the cost of rental housing to increases in homelessness. The report also indicates…
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…
NLIHC released Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing 2020 on July 14. The report compares rents and wages nationally and in every state, country, and metropolitan area…
NLIHC will released Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing 2020 tomorrow, July 14. The report compares rents and wages nationally and in every state, country, and metropolitan area in the United…
HUD published on June 19 its Worst Case Housing Needs: 2019 Report to Congress, showing that 7.7 million unassisted very low-income renter households in America spend more than half of their income…
