NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months:
Housing Matters Speaker Series, Fannie Mae, Georgia State University,…
The Senate Appropriations Committee voted unanimously on September 19 to approve a spending bill for affordable housing and community development programs for fiscal year (FY) 2020. The bill must now…
The House of Representatives on November 19 passed by a vote of 301-123 a stopgap funding measure, known as a continuing resolution (CR), that would fund the government through November 21. Congress…
Join NLIHC and other leaders of the Campaign for Housing and Community Development Funding for a webinar on Thursday, September 26 at 4:00 p.m. ET on the funding outlook for affordable housing…
Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) introduced the “Prevent Evictions Act” (S. 2486) on September 17. If enacted, the bill would establish a federal grant…
The House Financial Services Committee passed several bills that would expand housing assistance for communities vulnerable to housing insecurity or homelessness. The “Tribal Access to Homeless…
Representatives Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) and 59 other Democratic lawmakers sent a letter on September 19 to HUD Secretary Ben Carson opposing changes to the 2019 Notice of…
HUD Secretary Ben Carson rejected California Governor Gavin Newsom’s request for increased federal investment in housing options for people experiencing homelessness in a letter published on…
With the introduction of his new “Housing for All” plan, Senator Bernie Sanders joins several other Democratic presidential candidates in proposing bold plans to address the affordable housing crisis…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel joined 2020 presidential candidate and former U.S. Representative Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) on September 17 for an Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020 meeting at the Downtown…
The Fight for Housing Justice campaign has updated its website with a general advocate sample comment letter to make it easier to submit comments regarding HUD’s drastic proposal to make it virtually…
NLIHC joined 22 other housing, nutrition, and health advocacy organizations in signing on to five identical amicus briefs supporting a lawsuit brought by La Clinica de La Raza and their partners…