NLIHC, the Public and Assisted Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC), the National Housing Law Project (NHLP), and Regional Housing Legal Services (RHLS) submitted comments on April 11 to HUD…
HUD published a notice in the Federal Register on April 17, seeking public suggestions on how HUD could use its existing authorities to maximize Opportunity-Zones benefits for residents and their…
HUD posted national Housing Trust Fund (HTF) allocations for FY19 on April 16. An Excel document shows the FY19 HTF allocation for each state, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Territories. The Federal Housing…
Congress needs to hear from you! Please contact your senators and representatives and urge them to immediately pass a robust disaster aid package that includes funding for all impacted areas. Despite…
The Urban Institute released a report, Insult to Injury: Natural Disasters and Residents’ Financial Health, showing natural disasters often widen existing inequalities and harm residents’ financial…
The following is a review of disaster housing recovery developments since the last edition of Memo to Members and Partners (for the article in the previous Memo, see 4/15).
General…
An Urban Institute report, Public Housing Work Requirements: Case Study on the Chicago Housing Authority, used Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) administrative data and information from 24 interviews…
Source: OMB Historical Tables 5.1 (Budget Authority by Function and Subfunction) and 10.1 (Gross Domestic Product and Deflators Used in Historical Tables: 1940-2024).
The House Financial Services Committee will hold two hearings to discuss issues related to HUD and affordable housing. The first hearing will examine the infrastructure needs of the nation’s housing…
The Opportunity Starts at Home multisector affordable homes campaign hosted an April 11 congressional briefing on the results of a new public opinion poll on affordable housing in America with…
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a second set of proposed regulations pertaining to Opportunity Zone (OZ) implementation on April 17. The 169-page…
Housing justice advocates in Georgia, including NLIHC state partner Georgia Advancing Communities Together (ACT), achieved a significant victory by securing the passage of a tenants’ rights law in…
