Government Accountability Office Releases Two Reports Criticizing Federal Disaster Recovery Efforts
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released two reports describing multiple deficiencies in federal disaster response. The first report found that FEMA and the American Red Cross failed to…
Additional Disaster Housing Recovery Updates - September 30, 2019
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 9/23…
New Study Finds Medicaid Expansion Can Significantly Reduce Evictions
A new study published in Health Affairs, “Can Medicaid Expansion Prevent Housing Evictions?,” found that early Medicaid expansion in California was associated with an average reduction of 24.5 fewer…
Study Examines First-Year Implementation of Small Area Fair Market Rents
A report published by the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, “Measuring Fidelity to HUD’s Small Area Fair Market Rents (SAFMRs) Rule: Lessons from First Year Implementation,” evaluates the…
Census Bureau Releases Data from 2018 ACS on Cost-Burdened Households
The U.S. Census Bureau released new aggregate tables from the 1-Year 2018 American Community Survey (ACS) on September 26 showing millions of renter households are housing cost-burdened. The ACS is…
Fact of the Week: Large Percentages of Households with Lowest Incomes are Housing Cost-Burdened and Severely Housing Cost-Burdened
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 1-Year 2018 American Community Survey. Housing cost-burdened households spend 30% or more of their income on housing. Severely cost-burdened households spend 50% or more…
From the Field: Minneapolis City Council Passes Historic Tenant Protections
The Minneapolis City Council unanimously passed on September 13 an ordinance that establishes historic new tenant protections. The ordinance limits tenant screening practices by landlords on the…
NLIHC in the News for the Week of September 22
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of September 22: “Call for City to Take Aggressive Steps on Affordable Homeownership,” City Limits, September…
Where to Find Us - September 30
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,…
Senate Releases FY2020 Housing Spending Bill with Modest Increases
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…
House Passes Stopgap Spending Bill to Fund Government through November 21
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…