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 02/18…
HUD’s Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) issued an inaugural newsletter “Get NSPIREd” on February 12. NSPIRE is an acronym for National Standards for Physical Inspection of Real Estate. The…
HUD released a Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Data Dashboard on February 19 that provides information on public housing agencies’ (PHAs’) current Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) budget and unit…
President Trump announced his intention to nominate Dana Wade as assistant secretary for housing and Federal Housing Administration (FHA) commissioner. Ms. Wade was previously the acting Federal…
An article in Housing Policy Debate, “Housing Instability and Homeless Program Use Among Veterans: The Intersection of Race, Sex, and Homelessness,” looks at the variation in housing instability…
An article in Housing Policy Debate, “‘You Don’t See Them on the Streets of Your Town’: Challenges and Strategies for Serving Unstably Housed Veterans in Rural Areas,” reports that rural homeless…
Advocates from around the country are beginning to plan how they will be involved in the fourth annual Our Homes, Our Voices National Housing Week of Action taking place May 2 to May 12. To assist…
The Atlanta City Council passed Measure 20-O-1155 on February 17, prohibiting landlords from rejecting people applying to rent a home based on the applicant’s source of income, including denying…
Tenant Talk Live— NLIHC’s bimonthly call/webinar with resident leaders from across the country—provides opportunities for residents to connect with NLIHC and one another; to share…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of February 16:
“Bernie Sanders wants to spend $70B to modernize public housing, Pete Buttigieg wants to…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months:
Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disabilities…