House Finalizes Committee Rosters for 116th Congress
The House has finalized the membership of committees and announced subcommittee leadership for the 116th Congress. House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Ranking Member…
Senators Reintroduce ‘Voucher Mobility’ Bill to Improve Access to High-Opportunity Neighborhoods
Senators Todd Young (R-ID), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Roy Blunt (R-MO), and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) introduced S. 291, the “Housing Choice Voucher Mobility…
Join Letter Urging Congress to Lift Harmful Sequester Spending Caps for FY20
NDD United, a broad group of stakeholders interested in protecting federal nondefense discretionary (NDD) funding, is coordinating a sign-on letter urging Congress to end the harmful Budget Control…
More than 1,000 Organizations Call on Congress and President Trump to Reach Agreement on FY19 Spending Bills and Avert Another Shutdown
More than 1,000 organizations signed onto NLIHC and the Campaign for Housing and Community Development Funding’s (CHCDF’s) letter to Congress and President Trump urging them to come to an agreement…
Congress and the White House Reach Agreement to Reopen Government for Three Weeks
As the partial federal government shutdown approached week six and with the Senate voting but failing to pass either of two competing funding bills on January 24, President Trump announced on the…
NHLP Provides Updated Legal Memo on Rights of Housing-Assisted Residents During Shutdown
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) has updated its legal overview of the impact of the partial federal government shutdown on residents in key HUD and USDA Rural Development (RD) assisted…
Opportunity Starts at Home Hosts Congressional Briefing to Unveil “Within Reach” Policy Agenda
The Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector affordable homes campaign hosted a congressional briefing on January 24 with over 110 Capitol Hill staffers and advocates to unveil the release…
NLIHC’s 2019 Housing Policy Forum to Elevate Rural and Native Housing Issues and Solutions, March 27-29
The needs of rural and Native American tribal areas can often be overlooked in conversations about affordable housing, but the need in these places is no less severe. In fact, in many cases it is far…
Honor 2019 Housing Leadership Awardee Representative Emanuel Cleaver
Join NLIHC in recognizing 2019 Housing Leadership Award honoree Representative Emanuel Cleaver, who will receive the 2019 Edward Brooke Housing Leadership Award for his years of leadership in…
Disaster Housing Recovery Updates – January 28, 2019
The following is a review of disaster housing recovery developments since the last edition of Memo to Members and Partners (for the article in the previous Memo, see 1/22). NLIHC also…
Fair Housing Testing in Chicago Finds Discrimination Based on Race and Source of Income
A study by the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, Fair Housing Testing Project for the Chicago Commission on Human Relations, tested for source-of-income and racial discrimination in six…