Former U.S. Representative and House Financial Services Committee Chair Barney Frank (D-MA) and other friends and colleagues celebrated the contributions of long-time National Low Income Housing…
The National Low Income Housing Coalition held its 34th Annual Leadership Awards Reception on April 5 in Washington, DC, awarding Nancy Bernstine with the Cushing Niles Dolbeare Lifetime Service…
At the NLIHC 2016 Policy Forum (see related article in this Memo to Members), HUD Secretary Julián Castro officially announced that nearly $174 million will soon be available for the inaugural…
Following two days of informative sessions during NLIHC’s 2016 Housing Policy Forum, more than 100 advocates went to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, April 5 to lobby Congress in support of expanding…
The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) awarded its 2016 Organizing Award to the Washington D.C. based Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development (CNHED), an NLIHC state…
A report published by The Brookings Institution titled U.S. Concentrated Poverty in the Wake of the Great Recession shows a significant increase in the number of people living in concentrated poverty…
A research brief by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) titled Are Homeless Families Connected to the Safety Net? finds that homeless families with children in emergency shelters…
The House and Senate Appropriations Committees will release and vote on FY17 subcommittee spending amounts, formally known as 302(b) allocations, on April 13 and 14, respectively. Subcommittees began…
At NLIHC’s Policy Forum on April 4 (see related article in this week’s Memo to Members), HUD Secretary Julián Castro announced that HUD had issued legal guidance from the Office of General Counsel (…
HUD’s Office of Recapitalization has published Preservation Options for Section 236 Properties, a guide outlining the options that owners have to preserve Section 236 properties as affordable housing…
The National Housing Law Project is offering a webinar providing an overview of the new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulations as well as an update on the rule’s implementation.…
