Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) “American Housing and Economic Mobility Act” now has companion legislation in the House of Representatives, introduced by Representatives Cedric Richmond (D-LA),…
A report by Andrew Dumont from the Federal Reserve Board examines how states are using the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program to help rural communities with their affordable housing needs…
Representative Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA) introduced H.R. 7054, the “Housing Innovation Act,” which would establish an Office of Housing Innovation within HUD. The new office would focus on “developing…
Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) introduced on October 11 the “Seniors Housing Tax Credit Act” (S.3580), a bill to create a new tax credit to help make housing affordable to extremely low income senior…
Representative James E. Clyburn (D-SC) introduced on October 9 the “Housing Opportunity, Mobility and Equity (HOME) Act of 2018” (H.R. 7050), the House version of the Senate legislation (S.3342)…
A paper from the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS), Measuring Housing Affordability: Assessing the 30 Percent of Income Standard, compares two different measures of housing…
A report by the Terner Center at the University of California at Berkeley examined the affordable housing implications of California’s “Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act of 2008” (SB…
NLIHC released a Spanish-language version of Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing 2018 on June 28. The report, Fuera de Alcance: El Alto Costo de La Vivienda 2018, compares rents and wages…
NLIHC released Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing 2018 on June 13. The report compares rents and wages nationally and in every state, country, and city in the U.S. Out of Reach 2018 shows that…
