Mayor Pete Buttigieg joins other Democratic presidential candidates in releasing bold plans to address the nation’s affordable housing crisis. All those who have run for the Democratic nomination,…
Join NLIHC for a podcast “The Role of Housing Providers in Registering and Mobilizing Voters” on February 20 at 3:00 pm ET. Register for this podcast and NLIHC’s entire 15-month “Third Thursdays at…
The Opportunity Starts at Home (OSAH) multi-sector affordable homes campaign submitted a Statement for the Record to the House Financial Services Committee in advance of its January 14 hearing, “On…
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) led ten other members of Congress in requesting an inquiry by the HUD Inspector General into whether the Trump administration’s continued delay in providing disaster…
The following is a review of additional disaster housing recovery developments since the last edition of Memo to Members and Partners (for the article in the previous Memo, see 02/10…
HUD proposed drastic changes to the “Equal Participation of Faith-Based Organizations” rule (§5.109) on February 13. The proposed changes would remove the requirement that faith-based service…
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…
Diversity Data Kids, in partnership with Brandeis University, released the Child Opportunity Index 2.0, which measures neighborhood opportunity for children in 72,000 census tracts across the U.S. in…
The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University released America’s Rental Housing 2020, providing a comprehensive look at current challenges in the rental housing market. Among other…
The fourth annual Our Homes, Our Voices National Housing Week of Action will take place May 2 to May 12, and advocates from around the country are beginning to plan how they will be involved. To…
Maine Governor Janet Mills signed into law on February 12, a bipartisan bill (L.D. 1645) sponsored by House Assistant Majority Leader Ryan Fecteau that will create a new state affordable housing tax…