Affordable homes are built with ballots as much as with bricks and drywall. Advocates for expanded housing affordability, including low income renters, need to be a significant voting bloc because…
The House and Senate continue to negotiate a final deal on a four-bill spending package (“minibus”) that includes the FY19 Transportation-HUD (THUD) and Agriculture spending bills. Several issues are…
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance will hold a hearing on a recent HUD Inspector General (IG) report on HUD’s oversight of the Alexander County Housing Authority (ACHA…
The following is a review of additional housing recovery developments related to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, and the 2017 California wildfires since last week’s Memo to Members and…
The following is a review of housing recovery developments related to Hurricane Florence from the past week. NLIHC also posts this information at On the Home Front.
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NLIHC’s updated…
Agencies in both the U.S. Virgin Islands and Texas opened the period for public comment on proposed amendments to their State Action Plans for distributing Community Development Block Grant-Disaster…
The House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing on “Oversight of the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s role as conservator and regulator of the Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs)” on…
NLIHC members, partners and friends,
As Hurricane Florence approaches the Southeast, all of us at the National Low Income Housing Coalition are keeping everyone in the storm’s path in our thoughts,…
NLIHC Releases Getting Started: First Homes Being Built with Housing Trust Fund Awards
NLIHC released today a new report, Getting Started: First Homes Being Built with 2016 National Housing Trust…
Just hours ago, the Senate rejected the “The Spending Cuts to Expired and Unnecessary Programs Act” by a vote of 48-50. The bill would have cut $15 billion in previously approved funding, including…
The Senate Appropriations Committee voted June 7 to approve a draft FY19 spending bill that provides robust funding for affordable housing and community development programs at HUD. The strong Senate…
