Fact of the Week: Millions More of Lowest-Income Renter Households are Housing Cost-Burdened than Any Other Income Group
Source: NLIHC’s The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes 2019. NLIHC tabulations of 2017 ACS PUMS data. 2019.
Explore the Future of Public Housing at NLIHC’s March 27-29 Housing Policy Forum; Pre-Event Registration Ends Tomorrow!
Despite being a critical resource for ensuring low-income families have an affordable home, public housing suffers from decades of underfunding by Congress. As a result, public housing agencies have…
Tomorrow, March 19, Is Final Day to Purchase Tickets to NLIHC’s March 28 Housing Leadership Awards Reception Honoring Katz, Clifford, and Cleaver
The deadline to purchase pre-event tickets to attend NLIHC’s March 28 Housing Leadership Awards Reception has been extended to tomorrow, March 19. The event will honor the affordable housing…
House Passes Voucher Mobility Demonstration Act
The House of Representatives passed the “Housing Choice Voucher Mobility Demonstration Act of 2019” (H.R. 1122) by a vote of 387-22 on March 11. Representatives Duffy (R-WI) and Cleaver (D-MO) of the…
HUD Invites PHAs to Apply for “Rent Reform” Moving-to-Work Cohort
HUD posted Notice PIH-2019-04 inviting public housing agencies (PHAs) to apply to participate in the second cohort of the Moving to Work (MTW) Demonstration Program expansion. This cohort will test “…
Growing Voter and Candidate Support for Affordable Homes
Affordable homes are built as much with votes and ballots as with bricks and drywall: real change happens when voters support pro-affordable housing candidates and policies. In 2018, voters supported…
House Subcommittee Questions Acting FEMA Director about Disaster Housing Assistance, Response in Puerto Rico
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security held a hearing, “Update on Recovery Efforts for 2017 and 2018 Disasters,” on March 12. Acting FEMA Administrator Peter Gaynor, the sole…
House Subcommittee Discusses Need for Increased Community Resiliency
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation and Housing and Urban Development (THUD) held a hearing, “Stakeholder Perspectives: Building Resilient Communities,” on March 13. Members of…
House Subcommittee Examines Emergency Management
The House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery held a hearing, “Improving the Federal Response: Perspectives on the State of Emergency Management,” on…
Additional Disaster Housing Recovery Updates – March 18, 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 3/11…
From the Field: New Jersey Governor Commits to Fully Eliminate Diversions of Money from State Affordable Housing Trust Fund
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy presented his Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20) budget on March 5. The budget fully eliminates diversions of money from the state Affordable Housing Trust Fund (AHTF) and…