Senator Todd Young (R-IN) introduced on June 20 the “Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY) Act” (S. 1919), which aims to increase transparency and encourage affordable housing development in more communities by…
Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) on June 26 reintroduced the “Fair Housing Improvement Act of 2019” (S. 1986) which would prohibit housing discrimination based on source of income, veteran status, and…
The House Financial Services Committee approved on June 26 legislation introduced by Representative Chuy Garcia (D-IL) to protect residents of federally assisted housing from carbon monoxide…
The House approved by a vote of 227-194 on June 25 a five-bill FY20 spending package that includes robust funding for affordable housing and community development investments at HUD and…
Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020, NLIHC’s non-partisan candidate and voter engagement project, continues to monitor all 2020 presidential candidates’ statements and proposals on affordable housing and the…
The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University (JCHS) released the State of the Nation’s Housing Report on June 24. The report’s authors found a continued shortage of affordable housing…
The House passed on June 25 a five-bill spending package for FY20 that includes funding and provisions that would affect disaster housing recovery efforts.
The spending package created a Homeless…
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 6/24…
The Opportunity Starts at Home multisector affordable homes campaign collaborated with JustLeadershipUSA to publish a downloadable “Criminal Justice/Housing” fact sheet on its website.…
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the “Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019,” the strongest law protecting tenants in the state’s history, on June 14. The law permanently closes…
The next NeighborWorks Training Institute (NTI) will be held in New Orleans the week of August 19-23. In addition to offering a wide array of courses for nonprofit professionals in community…
