Senator Rounds Comments on HUD’s New ‘Need and Capacity’ Tribal Housing Grant
Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) submitted a letter to HUD Secretary Ben Carson on October 29 regarding a new $100 million competitive housing grant for Native Americans, which was included in the FY18…
NLIHC 2019 Housing Policy Forum to Focus on ‘Seizing the Moment for Bold Solutions’
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 Announces 2019 Housing Leadership Awards
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…
Point of View – by Diane Yentel, NLIHC President and CEO: Time to Vote — and Get Out the Vote!
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…
Where to Find Us – October 29
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 Issues Tenant Talk: Fair Housing 50 Years Later
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…
NLIHC in the News for the Week of October 21
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…
NHLP Provides More Resources Related to DHS’s Proposed ‘Public Charge’ Rule
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…
From the Field: HUD Awards Housing Action Illinois $1.2 million in Housing Counseling Funds
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…
Fact of the Week: Among Households that Moved in the Past Two Years, Poor Households Were More Likely to Have Been Forced to Move
Source: American Housing Survey 2017.
Report Assesses Impact of Rail Stations on Displacement in Los Angeles
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…