Additional Disaster Housing Recovery Updates - September 16, 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 9/09…
NLIHC Responds to Reports of Trump’s Possible Proposals to Criminalize or Otherwise Harm People Experiencing Homelessness
The Trump administration may be considering taking measures to further criminalize or otherwise punish poor people for their poverty, including possibly sweeping unhoused people into increasingly…
NLIHC Provides Sample Comment Letter Opposing HUD’s Proposed Disparate Impact Rule
NLIHC has prepared a sample comment letter for advocates to use to respond to the drastic changes HUD is proposing to the 2013 fair housing “Disparate Impact” rule. HUD’s changes would make it far…
HUD REAC Posts NSPIRE Health and Safety Risks
HUD’s Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) has posted lists of health and safety items for each inspectable area to be inspected as part of REAC’s National Standards for the Physical Inspection of…
NLIHC Submits Comment Letter Opposing Proposed Rule Ending Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility for SNAP
NLIHC voiced opposition to a proposed rule published in the Federal Register on July 23 that would end “broad-based categorical eligibility” for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP;…
Stable, Affordable Homes are Critical For Baby and Toddler Development
The Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector affordable homes campaign published a new blog on September 12 written by Mollyrose Schaffner, policy writer and editor for ZERO TO THREE. ZERO TO THREE,…
Household Income Stagnated, Poverty Decreased, and Uninsured Rate Increased in 2018
A set of three reports from the United States Census Bureau—Income and Poverty in the United States: 2018, Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2018, and The Supplemental Poverty Measure:…
Fact of the Week: Housing Assistance and Other Federal Aid Lift Millions Out of Poverty
Source: U.S. Census Bureau Supplemental Poverty Measure Report, 2019
September is NLIHC Membership Month - Join the Movement to End Homelessness and Housing Poverty Today!
We are halfway into NLIHC’s annual Membership Month, and more than 50 new members have already committed to Join the Movement to end homelessness and housing poverty in America! Thank you to all our…
From the Field: Indiana Advocates Join Roundtable with Author Matt Desmond and Senator Todd Young
NLIHC state partner Prosperity Indiana participated on August 7 in a roundtable discussion in Fort Wayne, IN, on the city’s affordable housing crisis and high rate of evictions—the thirteenth highest…
Ivory Innovations Seeks Nominations for ‘Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability’
Ivory Innovations, an organization that “brings together stakeholders of public and private organizations to support solutions to the national housing affordability crisis,” inaugurated an Ivory…