NLIHC and the Fair Share Housing Center of New Jersey released on October 25 Fixing America’s Broken Disaster Housing Recovery System: Part 1: Barriers to a Complete and Equitable Recovery…
The Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Building, and Emergency Management of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee held a hearing on federal disaster relief efforts on…
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 10/21…
Several states and many localities will hold elections on November 5. It’s time to get out the vote! NLIHC’s nonpartisan voter and candidate engagement project, Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020, focuses on…
NLIHC’s Housing Policy Forum 2020: Ending Homelessness and Housing Poverty will take place in Washington, DC, March 25-27, 2020, at the Washington Court Hotel. Register for the Forum today at: https…
Representative Steve Stivers (R-OH) was named ranking member of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development, and Insurance on October 17. The Subcommittee is…
The House Financial Services Committee held a full committee hearing, “The End of Affordable Housing? A Review of the Trump Administration’s Plans to Change Housing Finance in America,” on October 22…
HUD released on October 22 a Final Report: Evaluation of HUD’s Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD). The report has a chapter on the impact on residents of converting their public housing to one of…
Since its inception in 2018 the Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector affordable homes campaign has urged Congress to create a “National Housing Stabilization Fund” to provide short-term financial…
Fannie Mae’s Multifamily Market Commentary in August provides a picture of the comparative affordability of rents in manufactured homes over multifamily housing (apartments) and the current state of…
Jersey City, NJ, residents will vote on November 5 on Municipal Question 1, a referendum to maintain a city ordinance establishing regulations for short-term rentals. A “yes” vote will keep in…
The Urban Institute released Disrupting Food Insecurity, a new data dashboard that provides county-level statistics about food insecurity and a variety of related risk factors. The dashboard provides…
