The House of Representatives approved the “Reforming Disaster Recovery Act of 2019” (H.R. 3702) on November 18 by a vote of 290-118. The bi-partisan bill is supported by NLIHC and its 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 11/18…
HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) recently added two more chapters to its ongoing revision of the “Housing Choice Voucher Program Guidebook.” PIH also revised a previously updated…
HUD’s fall regulatory agenda was posted on the website of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on November 20. Each federal agency…
NLIHC will posthumously honor Shauna Sorrells, former NLIHC board member and chief operating officer at the Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County, with the Edward W. Brooke Housing…
Submit applications or nominations for the 2020 Annual Organizing Awards today! Two awards are given each year, usually with one award recognizing statewide or regional achievements and another…
The National LGBTQ Task Force announced on November 14 that it is joining the Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector affordable homes campaign Steering Committee. The National LGBTQ Task Force,…
A paper from the Terner Center for Housing Innovation, “How Housing Supply Shapes Access to Opportunity for Renters,” finds that in the 100 largest metropolitan areas, the number of neighborhoods in…
Apartment List shared results from its 2019 Renter Survey, which asked over 10,000 millennial renters about their homeownership goals, savings, debt, and barriers to purchasing a home. They found a…
Empower Missouri set out to build its Affordable Housing Coalition – a multidisciplinary coalition centered on affordable housing – following its 2018 Housing Empowers conference. After a year of…
Register today for “Affordable Housing Preservation Solutions for State & Local Governments,” the second webinar on the preservation of affordable housing hosted by NLIHC and the Public and…