Nearly 14,000 comments have been received so far in response to the administration’s harmful proposed changes to the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule. Let’s keep going! …
Homelessness is one of our country’s most urgent, tragic and solvable crises. We cannot end homelessness, however, by ignoring the evidence about what works. For this reason, NLIHC, the National…
Acting Director of the Office on Violence Against Women Laura Rogers issued a statement on February 19 clarifying that legal protections established in the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) –…
A new Ken Burns Film, “East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story,” along with the film’s directors Sarah Burns and David McMahon and a resident featured in the film, will be showcased at NLIHC’s…
The National Nurse-Led Care Consortium (NNCC) and the Opportunity Starts at Home (OSAH) multi-sector affordable homes campaign published on February 20, companion articles about the intersections of…
The following is a review of additional disaster housing recovery developments since the last edition of Memo to Members and Partners (for the article in the previous Memo, see 02/18…
HUD’s Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) issued an inaugural newsletter “Get NSPIREd” on February 12. NSPIRE is an acronym for National Standards for Physical Inspection of Real Estate. The…
HUD released a Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Data Dashboard on February 19 that provides information on public housing agencies’ (PHAs’) current Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) budget and unit…
President Trump announced his intention to nominate Dana Wade as assistant secretary for housing and Federal Housing Administration (FHA) commissioner. Ms. Wade was previously the acting Federal…
An article in Housing Policy Debate, “Housing Instability and Homeless Program Use Among Veterans: The Intersection of Race, Sex, and Homelessness,” looks at the variation in housing instability…
An article in Housing Policy Debate, “‘You Don’t See Them on the Streets of Your Town’: Challenges and Strategies for Serving Unstably Housed Veterans in Rural Areas,” reports that rural homeless…
