A category 4 hurricane like Harvey has a way of exposing the weaknesses in a city’s housing infrastructure. Arbor Court Apartments in Houston, Texas is a glaring example of that.
Arbor Court…
Since the 1980s, cities across America have created nuisance and crime-free ordinances as a means of decreasing illegal and dangerous activities from taking place in rental properties. However, as…
Many of the articles in this edition of Tenant Talk point to the failure of the government to end segregation and discrimination, and to protect people that are vulnerable. Many communities across…
Update from Our Homes, Our Voices Housing Week of Action:
Action Outside of HUD’s Office
By Rhoda Gibson, Co-Founder of Mass ADAPT
This past year, the administration has proposed many threats to…
An Overview of Representative Dennis Ross’s Bill to Cut Housing Benefits:
Representative Dennis Ross (R-FL) has released a draft bill that would cut housing benefits that help low income families…
NLIHC is re-invigorating the national Housing Trust Fund (HTF) campaign to bolster support for this first federal resource in a generation dedicated to building and preserving homes for the lowest…
Source: NLIHC, Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing, 2018. Housing Wages are derived from HUD
fair market rents. The hourly wages by percentile are from the Economic Policy Institute’s State of…
Congress failed to pass a stopgap funding measure yesterday, causing parts of the government to shut down at midnight. The Senate had earlier passed a “clean” stopgap funding measure, known as a…
Deplorable housing conditions in some developments and ongoing allegations of mismanagement have put the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) at the center of activity to address the agency’s…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months:
2019 NCSHA's HFA Institute Plenary Session, Washington, DC, on January 17…
You can support NLIHC’s work to end homelessness and housing poverty in America whenever you shop for the holidays on Amazon Smile. Just begin typing “National Low Income Housing Coalition” as your…
NLIHC is accepting applications for its field internship position for the winter/spring 2019 semester. The NLIHC field intern assists our Field team in creating email campaigns focused on important…
