Malik Siraj Akbar joined NLIHC on June 22 as the new Communications Specialist. Malik is the first person to hold this new position at NLIHC, the first time NLIHC has had a staff person devoted full…
Dispelling the myth of the affordable housing bogeyman”
“The scariest thing you’ll see this summer is not a genetically modified dinosaur noshing on nameless tourists in whatever iteration of…
Washington, D.C. – The Senate Appropriations Committee passed the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) FY16 spending bill this morning in a vote of 20 to10. Four…
Washington, D.C. – Today, as the Supreme Court issued its decision in the matter of Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, we are reminded…
Washington, D.C. – The State of the Nation’s Housing 2015 report, released today, continues to show that the lowest income households in America struggle to finds homes they can afford. The…
Washington, D.C. – The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) marked up its FY16 spending bill on June 23. While not all of…
Lela Schwartz joins NLIHC as a summer Field Intern. She is a senior studying International Relations, with minors in Human Rights and Community and Regional Development at the University of…
The Urban Institute released an updated map showing the gap between the need for and availability of housing affordable to extremely low income (ELI) renters. Using 2013 data from the American…
Nebraska’s legislature adjourned on May 29, passing two bills that will help to address the lack of affordable workforce, senior, and special needs housing. Legislative Bill 356 establishes the “…
On June 15, HUD published a greatly revised Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) Notice. The revision, PIH 2012-32 REV-2, incorporates changes authorized by the FY15 Appropriations Act, including…
On June 12, Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) introduced resolution H. Res. 314, which would express the sense of the House of Representatives that the Community Development Block Grant (…
On June 16, Maria Foscarinis of the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty testified on Title V of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 during a hearing held by the…
