NLIHC is accepting resumes for Fall 2013 intern positions. Interns are highly valued and fully integrated into our staff work. We seek students passionate about social justice issues, with excellent…
According to HUD’s Worst Case Housing Needs 2011: Report to Congress, the number of renters with worst case housing needs grew to a record 8.48 million in 2011, from a previous high of 7.10 million…
The National Housing Conference’s Center for Housing Policy (CHP) released the 2013 edition of Paycheck to Paycheck, examining data on housing affordability, with a focus on workers in the tourism…
NLIHC is accepting resumes for Fall 2013 intern positions. Interns are highly valued and fully integrated into our staff work. We seek students passionate about social justice issues, with excellent…
As previously reported, HUD has published long-awaited proposed regulations to establish a more effective approach to jurisdictions’ statutory obligation to affirmatively further fair housing (see…
Congress remains on recess. Both the Senate and House will reconvene the week of September 9. There will be just nine working days in September for Congress to deal with appropriations decisions for…
HUD recently released the Research Roadmap, a five-year plan (FY14-FY18) for research. The plan is the result of a comprehensive process that began in October of 2011, and involved extensive outreach…
Indiana advocates are celebrating the defeat of proposed changes to the comprehensive policy governing the state’s Neighborhood Assistance Program Tax Credit (NAP). Proposed by the Indiana Housing…
A recent study, conducted by Professor Michael C. Lens at UCLA’s Department of Urban Planning and published in Urban Studies, finds that there is no correlation between the number of Housing Choice…
In a speech on August 6, President Barack Obama discussed the Administration’s housing finance reform priorities. He proposed that the government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie…
On August 6, House Committee on Appropriations Ranking Member Nita Lowey (D-NY), issued a report entitled Impacts of Sequester: Irresponsible Republican Budget Is a Disaster for Job Creation,…
Representative Gwen Moore (D-WI) introduced H.R. 2955, the Runaway and Homeless Youth Inclusion Act of 2013, on August 1. Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI) is an original cosponsor. The measure would…
