The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing, “‘The Rent Eats First’: How Renters and Communities are Impacted by Today’s Housing Market,” on August 2. The hearing…
Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) unveiled the “Emergency Price Stabilization Act” on August 4. The bill would expand the White House Supply Chains Disruption Task Force to include a new sub-task…
Senate Democrats passed yesterday a reconciliation package that includes roughly $433 billion in new spending over the next 10 years on climate, energy, and health provisions. However, the “Inflation…
On NLIHC’s most recent (August 1) national call for the “HoUSed: Universal, Stable, Affordable Housing” campaign, we provided brief updates from Capitol Hill, learned about NLIHC’s upcoming webinars…
The House released and voted out of committee all 12 of its fiscal year (FY) 2023 spending bills, and the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and…
The U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a markup hearing on August 3 during which 28 bills were unanimously approved. Among these bills was a measure to create a…
An exceptionally large rainfall that began on July 28 has resulted in historic levels of flooding in eastern Kentucky. As the rain began to subside last week, responders and residents started…
FEMA
Recent announcements by FEMA suggest the agency may utilize additional funding to protect communities from extreme heat and dangerous climate impacts via its Building Resilient Infrastructure…
HUD released an economic justice agenda on August 4 outlining actions the department will take to help low-income renters develop credit, save resources for homeownership, access housing counseling,…
The Opportunity Starts at Home campaign released a new podcast episode, “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing.” The thirty-ninth installment in OSAH’s podcast series, the new episode features a…
Heat is the leading cause of weather-related death in the United States. A new paper published in Housing Policy Debate, “Housing and Urban Heat: Assessing Risk Disparities,” finds that households in…
Source: Occupational wages from May 2021 Occupational Employment Statistics, BLS, adjusted to 2022 dollars. Housing wages based on HUD fair market rents.
