Senator Todd Young (R-IN) provided a keynote address at NLIHC’s Policy Forum on March 27, explaining to attendees why tackling the affordable housing crisis has become one of his top priorities as a…
Recently announced presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) gave an address to nearly 500 NLIHC Housing Policy Forum attendees during a reception on Wednesday, March 27. “I believe the…
The winners of the 2019 Organizing Awards were honored on March 28 at NLIHC’s Housing Policy Forum: Seizing the Moment for Bold Solutions. Mutual Housing California (Sacramento, CA) received the…
More than 100 affordable housing and homelessness advocates attended NLIHC’s Capitol Hill Day on March 29 to close out NLIHC’s 2019 Policy Forum: Seizing the Moment for Bold Solutions. The advocates…
The Senate confirmed on April 4 Mark Calabria to serve a five-year term as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). Dr. Calabria will be leading the agency, which governs the activities…
The House Budget Committee approved on April 3, by a vote of 19-17, legislation that would raise the discretionary spending caps for fiscal years (FY) 2020 and 2021. The “Investing for the People Act…
As NLIHC’s recently released The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes report demonstrates, Nevada has the greatest shortage of affordable housing for extremely low-income renters in the nation; the…
The House of Representatives passed the “Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (VAWA) of 2019” (H.R. 1585) by a vote of 263-158 on March 4. The bill builds upon the housing protections that were…
The House Finance Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development, and Insurance held its first hearing in the 116th Congress on April 2 to assess the federal response to the…
The Senate Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs Committee held a two-part hearing on Chairman Crapo’s (R-ID) outline for housing finance reform on March 26-27. Many witnesses spoke about housing…
The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) released growth projections of homeowner and renter households in a new report, Tenure Projections of Homeowner and Renter Households for 2018-2038…
