Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) unveiled “A Just Society,” an ambitious anti-poverty proposal, on September 25. The proposal aims to improve federal anti-poverty interventions through…
The 2020 presidential candidates are making affordable housing a central part of their campaigns as never before. In just the last week:
Senator Warren toured the Golfview Mobile Home Court in…
CommunityVotes, a New York state-based non-profit that provides support to community-based service organizations to help them engage citizens who traditionally do not exercise their right to vote,…
The next debates for leading democratic candidates take place on October 15 in Ohio. We have reopened the Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020 sign-on letter to debate moderators; new organizational signers…
The first episode of the 15-month webinar and podcast series “Our Homes, Our Votes 2020: Third Thursdays at Three” is now available at www.ourhomes-ourvotes.org/webinars. The webinar originally…
HUD published in the Federal Register on September 25 its list of the 2020 Difficult Development Areas (DDAs) and Qualified Census Tracts (QCTs), which are used in the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (…
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released two reports describing multiple deficiencies in federal disaster response. The first report found that FEMA and the American Red Cross failed to…
A new study published in Health Affairs, “Can Medicaid Expansion Prevent Housing Evictions?,” found that early Medicaid expansion in California was associated with an average reduction of 24.5 fewer…
A report published by the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, “Measuring Fidelity to HUD’s Small Area Fair Market Rents (SAFMRs) Rule: Lessons from First Year Implementation,” evaluates the…
The U.S. Census Bureau released new aggregate tables from the 1-Year 2018 American Community Survey (ACS) on September 26 showing millions of renter households are housing cost-burdened.
The ACS is…
The Minneapolis City Council unanimously passed on September 13 an ordinance that establishes historic new tenant protections. The ordinance limits tenant screening practices by landlords on the…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of September 22:
“Call for City to Take Aggressive Steps on Affordable Homeownership,” City Limits, September…
