Philadelphia Settles Lawsuit with Property Owner to Retain Affordable Housing, Relocate Displaced Residents Following Years of Resident Organizing
The City of Philadelphia reached an agreement with IBID Associates on March 17 to transfer part of IBID’s property to the City to be redeveloped as affordable homes and provide $3.5 million to…
NLIHC Invites Cover Art Submissions for Summer Edition of Tenant Talk!
NLIHC invites artistically inclined advocates (and anybody else!) to submit your original artwork for a chance to be featured on the cover of this summer’s edition of Tenant Talk! Entries should…
New Paper Finds States Have Little Influence on Locations of 4% LIHTC Properties
A paper published in Housing Policy Debate, “A Missed Opportunity? The 4% Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program,” reveals that states have little control over the location of 4% Low-Income Housing…
Many LIHTC Projects Fail to Contribute to Neighborhood Revitalization Plans due to Weak Guidelines
A forthcoming paper in the Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law, “The Weakness of Neighborhood Revitalization Planning in the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program: Warnings from Connecticut,”…
Nine Percent LIHTC Projects Are Increasingly Sited in Racially Integrated and Lower-Poverty Neighborhoods Compared to 4% LIHTC Projects
Source: Kuai, Y. (2023). A missed opportunity? The 4% Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program. Housing Policy Debate. Retrieved from: https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2023.2180651
NLIHC in the News for the Week of April 30
The following are some of the news stories to which NLIHC contributed during the week of April 30: “The fight to make it harder for landlords to evict their tenants” Vox, May 1at: https://tinyurl.…
Where to Find Us – May 8
United Tenant Council of Councils Town Hall – Detroit, MI, May 24 (Courtney Cooperman) Maryland Emergency Management Association 2023 Symposium – Ocean City, MD, June 1 (Noah Patton) South Dakota…
Resources from 5/1 Tenant Talk Live Are Now Available!
During this week’s Tenant Talk Live, attendees were joined by advocates from Save Section 9, a tenant-led organization that works to educate and mobilize public housing tenants around the…
NLIHC Invites Cover Art Submissions for Summer Edition of Tenant Talk!
NLIHC invites you to submit your original artwork for a chance to be featured on the cover of this summer’s edition of Tenant Talk! Entries should address the theme of this summer’s edition: the role…
Disaster Housing Recovery Update – May 5, 2023
A recent decision by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has hampered efforts to ensure that federal civil rights law is being followed in the distribution of disaster mitigation funding in Texas,…
Join Monday’s (May 8) National HoUSed Campaign Call for Universal, Stable, Affordable Homes!
Join Monday’s (May 8) national HoUSed campaign call from 2:30 to 4 pm ET. Natasha Duarte and Mariah de Leon of Upturn will overview ways for advocates to weigh in on tenant screening regulations…