HUD PIH Updates HCV Data Dashboard
HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) has enhanced the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Data Dashboard to help public housing agencies (PHAs) maximize the impact of their HCV programs. The…
HUD Releases New Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Tenant Data
HUD released 2018 data on Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) tenant characteristics. The data include income, race, disability status, and family composition of tenants living in LIHTC housing.…
NLIHC Honors Sen. Sherrod Brown, Rep. Maxine Waters, Joy Johnson, and the Housing Justice Network with 2021 Housing Leadership Awards
NLIHC presented 2021 Housing Leadership Awards to Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), chair of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee; Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA), chair of the…
Tenant Talk Live on Environmental and Housing Justice Today!
Join resident leaders and NLIHC staff for Tenant Talk Live. Low-income people often bear the brunt of natural disasters and extreme weather—and this problem is apparent in the United States as low-…
Housing Justice Network to Hold Webinar on Tenant Organizing in Federal Housing Programs
The Housing Justice Network (HJN), a field network of more than 1,600 community-level housing advocates and tenant leaders hosted by the National Housing Law Project, will hold a webinar to discuss…
ZERO TO THREE Releases Report on Opportunity Disparities among Young Children
ZERO TO THREE recently released a new report on the status of infants and toddlers across the nation, providing an analysis of the disparities of opportunity. According to the report, 2 in 5 infants…
Research Explores Reasons for FEMA Application Denials in Puerto Rico
An article in Housing Policy Debate, “Deemed Ineligible: Reasons Homeowners in Puerto Rico Were Denied Aid After Hurricane María,” identifies several key reasons homeowner applicants were denied or…
CARES Funding Proved Critical for Homeless Services, but More Planning is Needed to Ensure People Experiencing Homelessness Receive Vaccines
The National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH) released a fourth report as part of its series on homeless system responses during COVID-19. The report, Voices from the Field: Responding to COVID-19…
Housing Counseling Supports Renters in Crisis
A recent article by the Urban Institute, “Housing Counseling to Support Renters in Crisis,” found that as demand for rental counseling increased during the pandemic, counseling agencies pivoted away…
Complexity of LIHTC Financing Increases Development Costs
The Terner Center for Housing Studies at the University of California at Berkeley released a report on “The Complexity of Financing Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Housing in the United States,”…
Half of All Communities Lack Plan for Mass Vaccinations of People Experiencing Homelessness
Source: National Alliance to End Homelessness, “Voices from the Field: Responding to COVID-19 (Part 4),” 2021.