The Trump administration released on September 5 a plan outlining legislative and administrative reforms to the nation’s housing finance system. The proposal includes the recapitalization and release…
House Democratic leaders announced they would be holding a vote on a stopgap funding measure, known as a continuing resolution, the week of September 16. Congress will need to pass a continuing…
After devastating the Bahamas and subjecting the eastern United States and Canada to dangerous storm surge and tropical storm-force winds, Hurricane Dorian has finally moved out into the North…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it was planning to transfer at least $115 million out of FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund and direct the funds to Immigration and Customs…
HUD released a Notice providing over $700 million in disaster mitigation funding to the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) as the territory recovers from 2017’s Hurricane Irma. HUD had previously stated that…
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 9/3).…
HUD’s Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) has expanded from five to 65 the number of inspection items open for feedback before REAC fully implements the NSPIRE Demonstration (see Memo, 8/26). Added…
HUD’s Office of Recapitalization posted the fourth update of the document implementing the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD), Notice H-2019-9/PIH-2019-23 (informally referred to as REV 4). In the…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel will be honored with the Champion Award at the Second Annual Children’s HealthWatch Celebration, “Home is Where Health Is,” on October 10. Children’s…
A paper in Housing Policy Debate, “Shelter Poverty in Ohio: An Alternative Analysis of Rental Housing Affordability,” finds that the standard housing costs-to-income ratio measure of housing…
The Utah Housing Coalition, an NLIHC state partner, has launched a new strategy to more effectively engage elected officials at all levels of government. The Coalition recently shifted from hosting…
