John V. Kelly stepped down from his role as the acting inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on June 11. The resignation comes after an internal report found significant…
The House Homeland Security Committee held a hearing on June 12 with Acting FEMA Administrator Pete Gaynor and Chris Currie from the Government Accountability Office. Lawmakers asked the witnesses…
NLIHC is partnering with Working Films — a production company that works with grassroots groups and non-profit organizations to visually enhance their programs — to curate a compilation of short…
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 6/10…
A report from the Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC), Trends in Housing Assistance and Who It Serves, finds that publicly supported housing programs assist more than 13.7…
Source: NLIHC’s Out of Reach 2019. Housing Wages based on HUD fair market rents. Employment projections from BLS Employment Projections Program. Occupational wages from May 2018 Occupational…
Senators Todd Young (R-IN), Angus King (I-ME), and Maria Cantwell (D-WA), along with 13 bipartisan senators, reintroduced the Task Force on the Impact of the Affordable Housing Crisis Act (S. 1772)…
Local advocates in Washington, DC, are celebrating the passage of a strong fiscal year (FY) 2020 budget that will provide more permanent supportive housing (PSH) for single adults than any in…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of June 9.
“Boise renters facing steep rental increases and low vacancy rates,” Idaho Press-Tribune, June 13 at…
NLIHC will release the 2019 edition of Out of Reach at 10:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday, June 18. Out of Reach documents the high cost of rental housing for low-wage workers and extremely low-income renters…
NLIHC is pleased to welcome Kathryn Lee as a communications specialist.
Kathryn will bring her communications and design expertise to support NLIHC’s new Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020 nonpartisan voter…
NLIHC is accepting applications for our fall internship positions. Interns are highly valued and fully integrated into our staff work. We seek students passionate about social justice issues, with…