A bicameral and bipartisan group of members of Congress sent a letter to HUD Secretary Ben Carson urging his agency to quickly release almost $14 billion in Community Development Block Grant-Disaster…
The following is a review of additional housing recovery developments related to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, and the 2017 California wildfires since last week’s Memo to Members and…
HUD’s Office of Affordable Housing Programs (OAHP) issued Notice CPD 18-09, providing guidance to jurisdictions about the homebuyer program requirements of the Home Investment Partnerships Program (…
A report by Lucius Couloute of the Prison Policy Initiative, Nowhere to Go: Homelessness among formerly incarcerated people, finds that formerly incarcerated people are nearly ten times more likely…
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is providing federal disaster assistance to Rio Grande Valley residents following the heavy rain and flooding the region experienced this past June.…
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) updated An Affordable Home on Reentry, a tool for advocates working with people who have criminal records and are seeking access to federally assisted housing…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of August 12.
“Readers' Mailbag: Being moved out of their homes,” Lake News Online, August 16 at: https://bit.…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months:
NeighborWorks Training Institute, Louisville, KY, on August 20
Oklahoma…
Senators Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) separately introduced bold proposals to create fully refundable tax credits for cost-burdened renters, households spending more than 30% of their…
Register for the fifth webinar in the six-part Our Homes, Our Votes series on nonpartisan voter engagement. This webinar, “I Vote for More Affordable Homes! Educating Voters Before Election Day,”…
The Opportunity Starts at Home campaign will host its first informational webinar on August 16, from 3:00-4:00 pm ET. The webinar, “Broadening the Housing Movement,” will be presented by Mike…
