On September 24, Portland, OR Mayor Charlie Hales (D) announced his request to the City Council to declare a state of emergency to address the homelessness epidemic in the city. The Mayor pledged to…
A study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Center for Urban and Regional Studies, Work Requirements in Public Housing: Impacts on Tenant Employment and Evictions, reports that…
The National Housing Conference’s Center for Housing Policy (CHP) released its 2015 edition of Paycheck to Paycheck. This year’s report examines housing affordability for workers in five occupations…
The U.S. Census Bureau released data from the 2014 American Community Survey (ACS) on September 17. The data show that 20.7 million U.S. renter households are cost burdened, spending more than 30% of…
Tierra Langley joins NLIHC as a fall Field Intern. She is a recent graduate of The Johns Hopkins University where she studied Sociology, Africana Studies, and Public Health. While at Johns Hopkins,…
Thank you for supporting NLIHC’s second annual Membership Month campaign in September. To our newest NLIHC members, welcome aboard! We are excited to have you join the Coalition, dedicated solely to…
Speaker of the House John Boehner’s (R-OH) decision to resign from Congress at the end of October has set off speculation about who will replace him and who will move up in the Republican hierarchy.…
On September 25, 2015, NLIHC posted the blog below by President and CEO Sheila Crowley in which she reflects on Pope Francis’ visit to Washington DC, September 23-24:
For those of us whose job…
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) announced he was resigning from Congress at the end of October, an action many believe clears the way for Congress to pass a “clean” Continuing Resolution (CR…
On September 22, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) issued preliminary guidelines on preventing and ending youth homelessness through a comprehensive and coordinated community…
The Virginia Housing Coalition (VHC), a NLIHC State Coalition Partner, has launched the Fund the Virginia Housing Trust Fund campaign, an initiative to secure a dedicated source of revenue for the…
A report by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University and Enterprise Community Partners, Projecting Trends in Severely Cost-Burdened Renters: 2015-2025, predicts that the number of…
