House Committee Advances Bill to Protect Residents from Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
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…
House Passes Robust Spending Package for Affordable Housing
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…
First Democratic Debates Brings Little Discussion About Affordable Homes, But We’re Just Getting Started
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…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies Releases Annual State of the Nation’s Housing Report
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…
Fact of the Week: Rents Are Out of Reach, Especially for Renters with the Lowest Incomes
Source: NLIHC’s Out of Reach 2019.
House Spending Package Includes Funding and Provisions for Disaster Relief
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…
Additional Disaster Housing Recovery Updates - July 1, 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 6/24…
Criminal Justice & Housing Fact Sheet Now Available!
The Opportunity Starts at Home multisector affordable homes campaign collaborated with JustLeadershipUSA to publish a downloadable “Criminal Justice/Housing” fact sheet on its website.…
From the Field: New York State Legislators Pass ‘Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019’
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…
New Orleans Hosts NeighborWorks Training Institute, August 19-23
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…
NLIHC in the News
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of June 23. “Rent Is Becoming Unaffordable For Many U.S. Workers,” Forbes, June 24 at: https://rebrand.ly/…