Presidential candidates are increasingly focused on affordable housing, and this primary season has featured more proposals to address the nation’s housing affordability crisis than any before. Most…
Our Homes, Our Votes, Our Iowa, a nonpartisan candidate-engagement partnership between NLIHC and the Polk County Housing Trust Fund, attracted national attention on June 15 with its first town hall…
NLIHC released on June 18 the 30th anniversary edition of its report Out of Reach, which documents the significant gap between renters’ wages and the cost of rental housing throughout the U.S. The…
The Senate confirmed on June 20 Hunter Kurtz to be HUD assistant secretary for Public and Indian Housing (PIH) and Seth Appleton to be HUD assistant secretary for Policy Development and Research (PD…
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House and Senate, including Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) and Representatives Jim Langevin (D-RI) and Chris Smith (R-NJ), introduced the “…
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 6/17…
The Opportunity Starts at Home multisector affordable homes campaign’s latest podcast episode elevates the personal stories of seven people across the country whose lives have been transformed by…
Illinois wrapped up its General Assembly session on June 2, but not before approving major new investments in affordable housing and acting to address the state’s structural budget deficit. The new…
NLIHC’s Out of Reach 2019 report has been covered in over 160 news stories since its publication on June 18. Here is a sampling of stories:
“Google Pledges to Invest $1 Billion to Ease Bay Area…
NLIHC released a Spanish edition of its report The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes 2019 (La Brecha: La Escasez de Viviendas Asequibles 2019) on June 21. The report shows the shortage or surplus…
NLIHC seeks a communications specialist who will be responsible for an array of communications coordination and project support for NLIHC’s Our Homes, Our Votes nonpartisan voter and candidate…