The House Appropriations Subcommittee that oversees funding levels for affordable housing and community development programs at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released on…
U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) has just confirmed he will address the NLIHC 2018 Housing Policy Forum: Building the Movement.
The Forum will take place March 19-21 in Washington DC. The deadline to…
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced its decision to protect funding for the national Housing Trust Fund (HTF) in 2018!
FHFA’s decision is an important step forward, but far more…
Budget Deal
Senate leaders announced on Wednesday, February 7 that they reached a bipartisan agreement to lift the federal spending caps on defense and domestic priorities by a total of $300 billion…
Tax Reform Signed Into Law
This afternoon, President Donald Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which was approved by Republicans in Congress earlier this week. The tax bill fails to…
After some last-minute negotiations, House Republicans today released the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act to make sweeping changes to the U.S. tax code. The plan takes a historic step in directly revising the…
Congress passes stopgap measure to keep government open through December 9
With only two days to spare before the deadline, Congress avoided a government shutdown by passing a short-term continuing…
An analysis by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, titled Many Full-Time Workers Face Housing Affordability Problems, finds the median full-time wage in low paying occupations…
The House Committee on Appropriations approved its FY17 THUD spending bill by a voice vote today. As we reported last week, the bill would:
Increase funding for homeless assistance programs;…
Senate
After days of debate, the Senate passed yesterday a spending package that included the THUD appropriations bill by a vote of 89 to 9.
NLIHC supported passage of the bill since it includes no…
NLIHC released Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing 2018 on June 13. The report compares rents and wages nationally and in every state, country, and city in the U.S. Out of Reach 2018 shows that…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months:
ACHANGE’s convening, Little Rock, AR, June 22- 23
A Home for Everyone…
