On June 17, Representative Scott Peters (D-CA) introduced H.R. 2813, the “Shelter our Servicemembers Act.” The bill would direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Secretary of Housing and…
On June 23, 15 Democratic Senators sent a letter to seven Administration officials, calling on the Administration to investigate alleged disparities in the way foreclosed homes in minority…
On June 22, The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) released an updated version of Opening Doors, the Administration’s comprehensive plan for preventing and ending homelessness. It…
On June 25, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld of the disparate impact standard in housing discrimination in a 5-4 decision ruling on Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v The Inclusive…
*Across the ten highest-cost housing metropolitan areas.
Source: Joint Center for Housing Studies (2015, June 24). The State of the Nation’s Housing 2015. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Author.…
On June 15, the Supreme Court of California unanimously upheld inclusionary zoning laws by ruling in favor of the City of San Jose’s ordinance requiring affordable homeownership development. The…
The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University released The State of the Nation’s Housing 2015 on June 24, reporting that the growing number of renter households has stressed the rental…
Rapid Re-housing: What the Research Says, a report from the Urban Institute, released in June 2015, examines rapid re-housing, an intervention that helps homeless families move into permanent housing…
Malik Siraj Akbar joined NLIHC on June 22 as the new Communications Specialist. Malik is the first person to hold this new position at NLIHC, the first time NLIHC has had a staff person devoted full…
Dispelling the myth of the affordable housing bogeyman”
“The scariest thing you’ll see this summer is not a genetically modified dinosaur noshing on nameless tourists in whatever iteration of…
Washington, D.C. – The Senate Appropriations Committee passed the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) FY16 spending bill this morning in a vote of 20 to10. Four…
Washington, D.C. – Today, as the Supreme Court issued its decision in the matter of Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, we are reminded…
