The Opportunity Starts at Home (OSAH) multi-sector affordable homes campaign hosted a panel discussion at the National Press Club on January 16 to discuss the need to prioritize housing affordability…
The Trump administration published in the Federal Register on January 14 a proposed rule that would reverse efforts to undo historic and ongoing patterns of housing discrimination and segregation…
The House Financial Services Committee held a full committee hearing on January 14, “On the Brink of Homelessness: How the Affordable Housing Crisis and the Gentrification of America is Leaving…
The House of Representatives passed on January 15 the “Veteran HOUSE Act of 2020” (H.R. 2398) by a vote of 362-31. The bill would allow chronically homeless veterans who have received “other…
Four key congressional leaders – Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Jack Reed (D-RI) and Representatives David Price (D-NC) and Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) – sent a letter on January 10 to Robert Marbut…
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) introduced on January 16 a bill, the “Public Housing Emergency Response Act,” that is a companion to a House version introduced by Representative Nydia Velazquez (D-NY…
The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity on January 14 held a hearing about “Making HUD-VASH Work for all Veteran Communities” on how to make the HUD-VA…
HUD has added training and resource webpages with information about federal lead regulations and the Lead Safe Housing Rule (LSHR) Amendment for pre-1978 housing on its website. The goal of these…
HUD issued Notice CPD-20-01 on January 8, providing guidance to participating jurisdictions (PJs) regarding the requirement that projects assisted with HOME Investment Partnerships program funds be…
HUD announced on January 13, a new online version of Building Home, a 12-module training program about the HOME Investment Partnerships Program. The Building HOME online training is an interactive…
A session on “Redesigning Disaster Recovery” will be a featured at NLIHC’s Housing Policy Forum 2020: Ending Homelessness and Housing Poverty taking place in Washington, DC, March 25-27, 2020. …
NLIHC will honor Bill Faith, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio (COHHIO) and former NLIHC board chair, with the 2020 Cushing Dolbeare Lifetime Service Award,…