HUD PIH Invites Certain PHAs to Apply for Fifth MTW Cohort
HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) issued Notice PIH 2023-20, inviting public housing agencies (PHAs) with 1,000 or fewer combined units of public housing and Housing Choice Vouchers (…
HUD Office of Multifamily Housing Reminds Owners That Tenant Organizations May Use Community Rooms for Tenant Organizing Activities
HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing Programs (Multifamily) distributed an email reminding owners and managers of private housing assisted by the Section 8 Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA)…
Register for 9/13 Joint NLIHC, HIP, RF Webinar on Tenant Experiences with ERA
Join us on September 13 from 2 to 3 pm ET for a webinar featuring researchers from NLIHC, the Housing Initiative at Penn (HIP), and the Reinvestment Fund (RF) who will present findings from their…
Alaska Housing Summit Convenes Cross-Sector Partners to Discuss Affordable Housing Challenges and Solutions
The Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness (an NLIHC state partner) and the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness (an NLIHC member) held an “Alaska Housing Summit” on August 21. The hybrid…
New Research Explores Connections between Residential Segregation and Health
A new article published in Health Affairs examines the connections between residential segregation and health. The paper shares an overview of the history of segregation in the U.S., explains the…
Number of Renters with Worst Case Housing Need Hits Record High
HUD released an Executive Summary of its forthcoming Worst Case Housing Needs 2023 Report to Congress on August 21. According to the summary, HUD estimates that a record-high 8.53 million very low-…
Worst Case Housing Need among Very Low-Income Renters Hits Record High in 2021
Note: Households with worst case housing needs have incomes below 50% of area median income, do not receive housing assistance, and spend more than half of their income on housing costs, live in…
Worst Case Housing Need among Very Low-Income Renters Hits Record High in 2021
Note: Households with worst case housing needs have incomes below 50% of area median income, do not receive housing assistance, and spend more than half of their income on housing costs, live in…
NLIHC in the News for the Week of August 20
The following are some of the news stories to which NLIHC contributed during the week of August 20: “Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel in Los Angeles?” City Watch LA, August 25 at: https://…
Where to Find Us – August 28
Florida Housing Coalition Statewide Affordable Housing Conference – Orlando, FL, August 28 (Dan Emmanuel) Great Lakes Indian Housing Association Quarterly Meeting – Baraboo, WI, September 6 (…
Tropical Storm Hilary Causes Devastating Flooding in Southern California
Tropical Storm Hilary, which formed as a hurricane in the Pacific Ocean last week, traveled north along Mexico’s Baja Peninsula before beginning to impact southern California on August 20. Parts of…