NLIHC issued its 2017 Annual Report on September 6. The report features NLIHC’s year of movement-building and responding to disasters and threats, both natural and political. Print-ready and…
Gloria Yang is NLIHC’s new communications and graphic design intern. She is pursuing a bachelor degree in graphic design with a concentration in book arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art.…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months:
Interagency CRA & Disaster Recovery Listening Session, Houston, TX, on…
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee held a field hearing on August 25 to discuss “Overcrowded Housing and the Impacts on American Indian and Alaska Natives.” Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) represented…
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance will hold a hearing on the cost of regulations on affordable multifamily development. The hearing will take place on September 5 at…
The House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing titled “A Failure to Act: How a Decade without GSE Reform Has Once Again Put Taxpayers at Risk.” The hearing will take place on September 6…
NLIHC joined a coalition letter opposing provisions in the House’s version of the 2018 farm bill that would cut SNAP food benefits, while expanding SNAP work requirements and imposing lifetime bans…
September is NLIHC Membership Month! Throughout the month NLIHC will be celebrating its members, the key to NLIHC’s strength, and inviting new individuals and organization to join the movement for…
On August 27, the Opportunity Starts at Home campaign issued its first Call to Action about a specific piece of legislation. The campaign calls on advocates to urge Congress to support the “…
The 2018 midterm elections take place on November 6, 2018. That's just 62 days from now. Are you ready? Our Homes, Our Votes, NLIHC’s project on nonpartisan voter engagement, has tools and…
Illinois Democratic U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin sent a letter asking HUD Secretary Ben Carson to report on his agency’s plan to address the serious problems at public housing…
HUD announced in the August 31 Federal Register the publication of FY19 Fair Market Rents (FMRs). FMRs are used to determine payment standards for the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program, initial…
