Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced on March 12 the “Making Affordable Housing Opportunities More Equitable Act” (S. 3452). This comprehensive bill is designed to reduce the shortcomings of…
HUD awarded $5 million to public housing agencies (PHAs) to purchase and install carbon monoxide (CO) detectors in public housing units, the first time it has done so. The source is HUD's Capital…
The House Committee on Financial Services passed several bills, including the “Housing Is Infrastructure Act” (H.R. 5187) and the “Housing Fairness Act of 2020” (H.R. 149), during a vote on February…
A Federal Register notice published on February 27 implements Section 209 of the “Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act” (commonly referred to as S. 2155 or “Economic Growth…
Homelessness is one of our country’s most urgent, tragic and solvable crises. We cannot end homelessness, however, by ignoring the evidence about what works. For this reason, NLIHC, the National…
HUD’s Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) issued an inaugural newsletter “Get NSPIREd” on February 12. NSPIRE is an acronym for National Standards for Physical Inspection of Real Estate. The…
House Democrats have unveiled a $760 billion blueprint for an infrastructure package that does not include robust resources to build or preserve affordable and accessible homes for America’s lowest-…
Homelessness is one of our country’s most urgent, tragic and solvable crises. We cannot end homelessness, however, by ignoring the evidence about what works. For this reason, NLIHC, the National…
HUD’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued a report, “HUD Has Not Referred Troubled Public Housing Agencies as the Law and Regulations Require,” on February 4. The OIG concluded the HUD…
House Democrats have unveiled a $760 billion blueprint for an infrastructure package that does not include robust resources to build or preserve affordable and accessible homes for America’s lowest-…
Homelessness is one of our country’s most urgent, tragic and solvable crises. We cannot end homelessness, however, by ignoring the evidence about what works. For this reason, NLIHC, the National…
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development, and Insurance held a hearing on February 5 on “A Future Without Public Housing? Examining the Trump Administration’s…
