Pressley Harrison is the Fall Communications Intern at NLIHC. She is working to earn a B.A. in Organizational Communications at Pepperdine University and is spending her fall semester in D.C. as part…
Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) is circulating a new “Dear Colleague” letter that asks Members of the House of Representatives to cosponsor his “Common Sense Housing Investment Act of 2015” (H.R…
The second Tenant Talk issue of 2011 focuses on housing issues created by natural disaster, how to find legal assistance, and what residents and tenants can do to help save the National Housing Trust…
In a letter sent to all Senate and House Members on September 10, more than 2,500 organizations called on Congress to raise the sequester spending caps. At a rally and press conference announcing the…
HUD’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that the Office of Public and Indian Housing did not sufficiently identify risks that could disrupt the effective implementation of the Rental…
HUD has published an interim rule codifying statutory changes made by the FY15 HUD appropriations bill to public housing flat rents, as well as new guidance to implement the interim rule. The interim…
HUD’s Proposed FY16 Fair Market Rents (FMRs) were published in the September 8 Federal Register for public comment. Comments are due by October 8.
FMRs are used to determine payment standards for…
At the request of the Senate Committee on the Budget, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently published a report reviewing federal housing assistance for low income households. The report…
On September 11, during the week of HUD’s 50th anniversary, House Committee on Financial Services Chair Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) issued a press release calling for the public to offer ideas on poverty…
On September 17, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary will hold a rescheduled mark-up of the “Stop Sanctuary Cities Act” (S.1814). Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Senator David Vitter (R-…
House Committee on Financial Services Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-CA) hosted a congressional briefing on the state of homelessness in America, where speakers, including actor and activist Richard…
