On the most recent (March 13) National HoUSed Campaign Call, we discussed President Biden’s fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget; research detailing the relationship between housing supply and homelessness;…
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Freedom Caucus – a group of ultra-conservative Republicans in the House, led by Representative Scott Perry (R-PA) – released a broad outline of the…
U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Financial Services Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-CA) released a statement on March 15 urging her Democratic colleagues to work together to oppose funding…
NLIHC released its annual report, The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, on March 16. This year’s report finds that the lowest-income renters in the U.S. face a shortage of 7.3 million affordable…
The Spanish edition of NLIHC’s Winter 2023 Tenant Talk – a semi-annual newsletter created by NLIHC to engage renters and residents in housing advocacy – is now available online! Each issue of Tenant…
In recognition of the second anniversary of the “American Rescue Plan Act of 2021” (ARPA), the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) released a report identifying positive impacts of the law…
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers released a 2023-2025 biennial budget proposal that contains significant resources to expand legal aid for renters facing eviction, strengthen tenant protections, prevent…
The HUD Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) Top Management Challenges Facing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for 2023 again prioritizes eliminating lead-based and radon…
HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) issued Notice PIH-2023-03, which provides guidance on the implementation of Section 103, the “over-income” provision of the “Housing Opportunity…
HUD provided a preview version of a final rule, “Restoring HUD’s Discriminatory Effects Standard,” on March 17. This final rule, when formally published in the Federal Register, will restore the 2013…
Writing on behalf of the Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition (DHRC), NLIHC submitted comments to FEMA in response to a request for feedback regarding a new guide being prepared by the agency, “…
HUD announced on March 15 that the agency would release an allocation of more than $3.3 billion in long-term recovery funds to seven states and territories impacted by disasters in 2022 and that it…
