HUD Secretary Carson to Testify before House Financial Services Committee, May 21
HUD Secretary Ben Carson will testify before the House Financial Services Committee during a HUD oversight hearing on Tuesday, May 21 at 10:00 a.m. ET. The hearing will take place in 2128 Rayburn…
NLIHC and Housing Action NH Raise the Issue of Affordable Housing in the Presidential Primaries
NLIHC state partner Housing Action New Hampshire (Housing Action NH) and NLIHC together launched the nonpartisan Our Homes, Our Votes, Our New Hampshire project on May 16. Through this initiative…
HUD Announces National Housing Trust Fund 2019 Allocations
HUD formally published the 2019 national Housing Trust Fund allocations for the states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. territories on May 17. As previously reported, $248 million is available (see Memo, 2…
HUD Releases Block Grant Allocations for 2018 Disaster-Impacted States
HUD released on May 14 allocations of Community Development Block Grant–Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funding for areas impacted by the 2018 disasters. These awards come from money Congress…
Congress Introduces Bipartisan Bills to Release Disaster Mitigation Funds
A bipartisan group of senators including Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), John Cornyn (R-TX), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Kamala Harris (D-CA) introduced on May 7…
Governors Urge President and Congress to Act on Disaster Aid Package
A bipartisan group of ten governors from North Carolina, Alabama, California, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, South Carolina, and Wisconsin sent a letter on May 7 to President Trump and…
Additional Disaster Housing Recovery Updates – May 20, 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 5/13…
Despite an Improving Economy, Little Improvement in Low-Income Families’ Ability to Meet Basic Needs
A study by the Urban Institute, Despite Labor Market Gains in 2018, There Were Only Modest Improvements in Families’ Ability to Meet Basic Needs, finds that families saw little improvement over the…
Fact of the Week: U.S. Spends Far Less on Housing Assistance as a Percent of GDP than other Developed Countries
OECD: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
From the Field: California Advocates Launch investAHSC Campaign for Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Funded by Cap-and-Trade
California advocates launched investAHSC on May 7, a new campaign, coalition and website calling for sustained investments into the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) program.…
New Orleans Hosts NeighborWorks Training Institute, August 19-23
New Orleans will host the next NeighborWorks Training Institute (NTI) August 19-23. Each NTI offers a wide array of courses for nonprofit professionals in community development, affordable housing,…