A final rule, “Restoring HUD’s Discriminatory Effects Standard,” was formally published in the Federal Register on March 31. The final rule restores the 2013 discriminatory effects rule and rescinds…
HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) posted a Housing Mobility Toolkit on HUD Exchange. The toolkit makes available materials that can be used by public housing agencies (PHAs) to design…
HUD’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued an audit, “HUD’s Section Eight Management Assessment Program,” on March 6 indicating that HUD has an opportunity to improve the Section Eight…
HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing Programs has updated Chapter 9 of the Section 8 Renewal Policy Guidebook. A HUD media release states that the changes to the chapter – which deals with Rent…
HUD issued a notice regarding a proposed National Standards for Physical Inspection of Real Estate (NSPIRE) physical inspection scoring and ranking methodology on March 28. The NSPIRE scoring…
NLIHC joined the National Housing Law Project (NHLP) and the Housing Assistance Council (HAC) in submitting a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Housing Service regarding its…
A series of storms moving across the Southeastern U.S. produced several destructive tornados on the evening of March 24, killing 26 people. The damage was greatest in Mississippi, where an EF-4…
The Protecting Immigrant Families Coalition (PIF) is hosting a Week of Action from May 1 to May 5 to urge Congress to enact the “Lifting Immigrant Families through Benefits Access Restoration Act” (…
California Governor Gavin Newsom has unveiled a proposal to allocate more than $100 million annually from the state’s Medicaid program to pay for up to six months of housing for people who are or are…
An article published in Social Problems, “‘The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease’: Rental Assistance Applicants’ Quests for a Rationed and Scarce Resource,” documents various challenges faced by…
The following are some of the news stories to which NLIHC contributed during the week of March 26:
“Low-income renters continue to be hit hardest by housing shortage” Route Fifty, March 23 at:…
