On September 30, the National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF) Campaign representing more than 7,000 organizations from every Congressional district sent a letter to Congressional leaders and appropriators…
With just hours to spare, on September 30, the Senate and House passed and President Barack Obama signed a Continuing Resolution (CR) to keep the federal government funded through December 11. Now…
NDD United, a broad coalition of organizations representing non-defense discretionary (NDD) programs, will host a rally at the U.S. Capitol on October 7 calling on Congress to raise the federal…
Join organizations from across the country on October 19 at 3pm ET, for a webinar on Spending Caps, Budget Negotiations, and the Impact on Housing and Community Development in Your Community. Offered…
The House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing entitled, The Future of Housing in America: 50 Years of HUD and its Impact on Federal Housing Policy, on October 8 at 9 am ET. …
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.…
