HUD released a new tool on November 15 that provides easier access to some of the commonly used Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS) data. This data query tool allows individuals to…
The Center for American Progress (CAP) released a paper authored by Tracey Ross titled, “No Place like Home: Addressing Poverty and Homelessness in the United States,” on December 5. Ross cites the…
A new study, Does High Home-Ownership Impair the Labor Market? by David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald, reveals an association between high levels of home-ownership and high levels of subsequent…
Welcome to these new members who joined in November 2013:
Baitul Salaam Network, Inc., Stone Mountain, GA
Cecille Dean, Cincinnati, OH
Richard Monocchio, Chicago, IL
Kevin Morrison, Hartford, CT…
NLIHC is accepting resumes for Spring 2014 internship positions. Interns are highly valued and fully integrated into our staff work. We seek students passionate about social justice issues, with…
NLIHC is accepting resumes for Spring 2014 internship positions. Interns are highly valued and fully integrated into our staff work. We seek students passionate about social justice issues, with…
Memo to Members will go on a one-week hiatus for the Thanksgiving holiday and return to publication December 6. In addition, NLIHC offices will be closed November 27-29.
We wish our readers a happy…
President Barack Obama’s nomination of Representative Mel Watt (D-NC) to be director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) came closer to reality on November 21, when the Senate voted to…
Nearly two months into FY14, Congressional appropriators still cannot craft spending bills because the Budget Conference Committee has yet to provide FY14 spending caps. On November 18, House…
Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) have introduced legislation to make the federal Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act (PTFA) permanent, and to add a private…
Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) introduced S. 1754, the Higher Education Access and Success for Homeless and Foster Youth Act, on November 21. The bill…
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a November 19 hearing on disparate impact theory and whether the practice meets its goal of protecting against…
