The House of Representatives will vote this week on a bipartisan bill to permanently authorize HUD’s Community Development Block Grant–Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program. The bill includes key…
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 11/11…
Congress plans to vote on a stopgap funding measure, known as a continuing resolution (CR), the week of November 18. This would be the second CR of fiscal year 2020 (FY20), which began on October 1;…
NLIHC submitted comments regarding HUD’s proposed changes to the regulations for the public housing, Housing Choice Voucher, and Section 8 project-based rental assistance programs implementing income…
The Senate Banking Committee will hold a nomination hearing for several HUD officials on November 20 at 10:00 a.m. ET in Room 538 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Nominees include Brian D.…
Will the presidential debate moderators ask the candidates about their proposed solutions to the housing crisis facing millions? Will the candidates find a way to bring up their affordable housing…
Affordable homes are built with ballots every bit as much as they are built with beams and drywall! Low-income renters need to vote, and candidates for elected office must be engaged on affordable…
NLIHC’s Housing Policy Forum 2020: Ending Homelessness and Housing Poverty will explore the current state of affordable housing and homelessness in America. The Forum will review achievements in 2019…
NLIHC will honor Jennifer Leimaile Ho, commissioner of Minnesota Housing and former senior advisor at HUD and deputy director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH), with the 2020…
Submit applications or nominations for the 2020 Annual Organizing Awards today! One award will recognize statewide or regional achievements, and one award will recognize citywide or neighborhood…
The Opportunity Starts at Home multisector affordable homes campaign released on November 14 its twentieth podcast episode, this one featuring two experts from the campaign’s multi-sector Steering…
A paper published in Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, “Does Jobs Proximity Matter in the Housing Choice Voucher Program?,” found no evidence that Housing Choice Voucher…