Awareness about the affordable housing crisis in America is growing significantly, and federal policymakers on both sides of the aisle are responding; some have put forward bold legislative…
NLIHC has announced its 2019 Housing Leadership Awards honorees: U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO); Emma “Pinky” Clifford, executive director of the Oglala Sioux Tribe Partnership for…
Diane Yentel,
NLIHC President & CEO
Election Day is almost here. We at NLIHC thank all of you who have participated in Our Homes, Our Votes to register low income residents and other citizens…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months:
Utah Housing Matters Conference, Ogden, UT, on November 7
Facing Race: A…
NLIHC’s latest edition of Tenant Talk—a periodic publication aimed at engaging tenants on housing policy and highlighting local advocacy successes – is now available. The fall 2018 issue focuses on…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of October 21.
“Emphasize economic arguments for improving homeless services, Utah service providers told,” KSL…
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) has developed more resources about the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) proposed changes to the “public charge” rule (see Memo, 10/15). NHLP has…
Housing Action Illinois, an NLIHC state partner, was recently awarded $1.2 million from HUD to distribute to local nonprofits for housing counseling services. These sub-grants will be given to 33 HUD…
In Sustainability and Displacement: Assessing the Spatial Pattern of Residential Moves Near Rail Transit, researchers from the National Center for Sustainable Transportation analyze the effects of…
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) sent a letter on October 12 to HUD Secretary Ben Carson urging him to halt HUD’s efforts to weaken its Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulations, which help…
More than 400 letters have been sent to Congress by Opportunity Starts at Home advocates in support of the “Task Force on the Impact of the Affordable Housing Crisis Act” (S.3231). The bill would…
