Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) led ten other members of Congress in requesting an inquiry by the HUD Inspector General into whether the Trump administration’s continued delay in providing 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 02/10…
HUD proposed drastic changes to the “Equal Participation of Faith-Based Organizations” rule (§5.109) on February 13. The proposed changes would remove the requirement that faith-based service…
HUD’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued a report, “HUD Has Not Referred Troubled Public Housing Agencies as the Law and Regulations Require,” on February 4. The OIG concluded the HUD…
Diversity Data Kids, in partnership with Brandeis University, released the Child Opportunity Index 2.0, which measures neighborhood opportunity for children in 72,000 census tracts across the U.S. in…
The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University released America’s Rental Housing 2020, providing a comprehensive look at current challenges in the rental housing market. Among other…
The fourth annual Our Homes, Our Voices National Housing Week of Action will take place May 2 to May 12, and advocates from around the country are beginning to plan how they will be involved. To…
Maine Governor Janet Mills signed into law on February 12, a bipartisan bill (L.D. 1645) sponsored by House Assistant Majority Leader Ryan Fecteau that will create a new state affordable housing tax…
NLIHC will hold two webinars in March on effective advocacy and NLIHC’s policy priorities. These webinars are in preparation for NLIHC’s annual Capitol Hill Day taking place on March 27, but those…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of February 9:
“5 Things To Know About The Affordable Housing Crisis,” Forbes, February 14 at: https://tinyurl.…
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…
