Senators Tina Smith (D-MN) and Mike Rounds (R-SD) introduced the “Rural Housing Service Reform Act of 2023” (S.1389) in the U.S. Senate. The bill would aim to improve the housing programs…
The White House released on April 28 the “White House Alternatives, Rehabilitation, and Reentry Strategic Plan,” a multi-year strategy to improve rehabilitation efforts in carceral settings and…
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) will hold a webinar on May 18 to review three new sets of regulation changes arising from the “Housing Opportunity through Modernization Act of 2016” (HOTMA).…
The Opportunity Starts at Home (OSAH) campaign sent a letter to Congress on April 21 urging congressional leaders to reject any proposal to cut domestic spending, including investments in affordable…
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 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…
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…
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,”…
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.…
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…
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…
