Natural Disasters Are Severely Detrimental to Residents’ Financial Health
The Urban Institute released a report, Insult to Injury: Natural Disasters and Residents’ Financial Health, showing natural disasters often widen existing inequalities and harm residents’ financial…
Additional Disaster Housing Recovery Updates – April 22, 2019
The following is a review of disaster housing recovery developments since the last edition of Memo to Members and Partners (for the article in the previous Memo, see 4/15). General…
Case Study of Chicago’s Public Housing Work Requirements Finds No Link to Self-Sufficiency
An Urban Institute report, Public Housing Work Requirements: Case Study on the Chicago Housing Authority, used Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) administrative data and information from 24 interviews…
Fact of the Week: Significantly Higher Percentages of Native Americans, Blacks, and Hispanics Have Extremely Low-Incomes Than Do Whites
Source: NLIHC tabulations of 2017 ACS PUMS data. NLIHC’s The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, 2019.
House Financial Services Committee to Hold Two Hearings on Housing in America
The House Financial Services Committee will hold two hearings to discuss issues related to HUD and affordable housing. The first hearing will examine the infrastructure needs of the nation’s housing…
Opportunity Starts at Home Campaign Hosts Congressional Briefing On New Public Opinion Poll
The Opportunity Starts at Home multisector affordable homes campaign hosted an April 11 congressional briefing on the results of a new public opinion poll on affordable housing in America with…
More Presidential Hopefuls Start to Commit to Addressing Affordable Housing Crisis
At a CNN Town Hall on April 11, 2019, former HUD Secretary and 2020 presidential candidate Julián Castro called for a strong investment in affordable housing. “I bet you that if we went through the…
Treasury Department and IRS Issue Second Opportunity Zone Set of Proposed Rules, Request Public Input on Information Collection
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a second set of proposed regulations pertaining to Opportunity Zone (OZ) implementation on April 17. The 169-page…
From the Field: Georgia Legislature Passes Tenant Protection Legislation
Housing justice advocates in Georgia, including NLIHC state partner Georgia Advancing Communities Together (ACT), achieved a significant victory by securing the passage of a tenants’ rights law in…
New Orleans Advances Smart Housing Mix
HousingNOLA and its partners have been working for the past three years to create a mandatory inclusionary zoning policy in New Orleans called “Smart Housing Mix.” When Louisianan opponents…
National Housing Conference Releases Annual Paycheck to Paycheck Report
The National Housing Conference (NHC) released its annual Paycheck to Paycheck report, Paycheck to Paycheck: Building Homes Affordable to Home Builders, focusing this year on the rental and…