The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) released the “2011 Annual Update to Opening Doors: The Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness” on October 3. “Opening Doors” was…
On September 23, FEMA released its final National Disaster Recovery Framework (NDRF), which outlines the process by which the federal government supports disaster recovery efforts. The NDRF includes…
According to a report prepared by the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University and released August 9, the current rental market is recovering, with growing demand and rising rents but…
NLIHC will hold a briefing for Hill staffers on September 9 to review HUD’s rental assistance programs and various myths and facts associated with them.NLIHC is inviting House and Senate offices to…
In an ongoing effort to improve the look of HUD’s website and make it
more user-friendly, HUD has recently launched a new webpage that
provides a wealth of information on preserving multifamily…
Last week’s field article incorrectly gave the name for the Housing and
Community Development Network of New Jersey. For more information,
please contact Arnold Cohen at [email protected]. We…
HUD proposed revising existing regulations governing a public housing
agency’s (PHA) physical needs assessment (PNA) on July 20. A PNA
identifies all of the work that a PHA needs to undertake over…
Tenant Talk, NLIHC’s quarterly newsletter for residents of
public housing, assisted tenants, and low income renters and their
allies, is now available. The Spring 2011 issue of Tenant Talk…
The House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing, “Oversight
of HUD’s HOME Program,” on June 3 in response to a series of articles in
the Washington Post that criticized a number of HOME…
The role of government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) in the
development of affordable housing was highlighted at a hearing of the
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, “Public…
The House Committee on Financial Services will hold a hearing,
“Oversight of HUD’s HOME Program,” on June 3. The hearing will take
place at 9:30am ET in room 2128 of the Rayburn House office…
