Fact of the Week: Percent Change in Renter Population and Rental Housing Stock: 2006-2014
Source: Ellen, I. G. Karfunkel, B. (2016). Renting in America’s Largest Metropolitan Areas. New York City: NYU Furman Center and Capital One. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/1UxBuEz
Formerly Homeless Parents Struggle to Access Preschool
A report published by The Cloudburst Group and sponsored by HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research titled A Qualitative Assessment of Parental Preschool Choices and Challenges among Families…
Affordable Rental Housing Lacking in 11 Largest Metropolitan Areas
A report by New York University’s Furman Center and Capital One titled Renting In America’s Largest Metropolitan Areas shows that growth in the rental housing stock in the 11 largest metropolitan…
U.S. Lacks Housing for 7.2 Million Lowest Income Renters
NLIHC released a new report on March 24 titled The Gap: The Affordable Housing Gap Analysis, 2016 that documents a shortage of 7.2 million affordable and available rental units for the nation’s 10.4…
Special Presentation by Matthew Desmond on his Book Evicted in Washington DC, April 28
NLIHC is hosting a special presentation by Matthew Desmond on his New York Times best-selling book: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City on April 28, from 9:30 to 11:30am ET at the…
Representative Waters Introduces Bill to End Homelessness, Funds NHTF at $1.05 Billion Annually
On March 23, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Financial Services Maxine Waters (D-CA) introduced legislation to provide significant resources to end homelessness in the United States. The…
Sequester Hits NHTF, NLIHC Update State Allocation
NLIHC has learned that an unfortunate provision in the Budget Control Act of 2011, the law that created the sequester, will take a 6.9% cut out of the National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF) and the…
Witnesses at Congressional Hearing Support LIHTC Income Averaging, MID Reform
On March 22, the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance held a hearing to examine whether government regulations impact the cost of producing affordable housing. Some hearing…
Transportation Costs Make Section 8 Properties Unaffordable in Many Areas
An article published by Housing Policy Debate titled “How Affordable is HUD Affordable Housing?” examines transportation costs for residents living in Section 8 multifamily properties. The study’s…
Fact of the Week: Rental Units and Renters in the US, Matched by Affordability and Income Categories, 2014
Source: NLIHC Tabulations of 2014 ACS PUMS Data.
House Budget Committee Passes FY17 Resolution, Further Action Questionable
At the end of a nine-hour mark-up on March 16, the House Budget Committee passed an FY17 budget resolution by a vote of 20-16. All 14 Democrats and two Republican members of the ultra-conservative…