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 11/11…
Congress plans to vote on a stopgap funding measure, known as a continuing resolution (CR), the week of November 18. This would be the second CR of fiscal year 2020 (FY20), which began on October 1;…
The Senate Banking Committee will hold a nomination hearing for several HUD officials on November 20 at 10:00 a.m. ET in Room 538 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Nominees include Brian D.…
NLIHC’s Housing Policy Forum 2020: Ending Homelessness and Housing Poverty will explore the current state of affordable housing and homelessness in America. The Forum will review achievements in 2019…
Submit applications or nominations for the 2020 Annual Organizing Awards today! One award will recognize statewide or regional achievements, and one award will recognize citywide or neighborhood…
The Opportunity Starts at Home multisector affordable homes campaign released on November 14 its twentieth podcast episode, this one featuring two experts from the campaign’s multi-sector Steering…
A paper published in Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, “Does Jobs Proximity Matter in the Housing Choice Voucher Program?,” found no evidence that Housing Choice Voucher…
The Las Vegas City Council passed an ordinance to criminalize homelessness. The new law makes it a misdemeanor to camp or sleep on public streets if beds at established shelters are available. The…
The Urban Institute released the 2019 National Longitudinal Land Use Survey (NLLUS), which includes data on land-use regulations and planning practices in 1,703 jurisdictions. In 2019, a survey was…
What strategies can state and local governments use to preserve publicly supported affordable rental housing? Register for “Affordable Housing Preservation Solutions for State & Local Governments…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of November 10:
“Forget the luxury apartments, Baltimore needs more affordable housing,” The Baltimore Sun,…
