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 3/02…
A paper published by the Urban Institute, “Spatial Mismatch and Federally Supported Rental Housing,” found that assisted households had substantially lower access to jobs within a standard commuting…
The Policy Surveillance Program at Temple University’s Center for Public Health Law Research updated two datasets, one on state fair housing protections and another on city nuisance property…
People experiencing homelessness are among the populations deemed “hard to count” by census officials, putting them at a higher risk of not being fully counted in the 2020 Census. The needs of this…
The Virginia House of Delegates passed House Bill 6 (HB 6) on March 4, advancing fair housing protections for renters who use Housing Choice Vouchers (HCV). The bill would add discrimination on the…
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) will conduct a webinar, “Housing Rights for Survivors of Domestic Violence Interacting with the Criminal Justice System,” on Monday, March 30 at 3:00 p.m. ET…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of March 1:
“The Surprising Causes of Homelessness,” Medium, March 3 at: https://tinyurl.com/qm5848l
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A study in the Journal of the American Planning Association, “Affordable Housing, Disasters, and Social Equity: LIHTC as a Tool for Preparedness and Recovery," evaluated how states are using the…
Memo to Members & Partners | Volume 25, Issue 9
Memo: House Committees Pass Critical Housing Bills, New HTF Allocation, Housing in the Presidential Debates, and More
NLIHC released on February 17 its winter 2020 edition of Tenant Talk, a publication by and for residents of public and assisted housing and those in need of such housing. This edition focuses on “The…
The House Committee on Financial Services passed several bills, including the “Housing Is Infrastructure Act” (H.R. 5187) and the “Housing Fairness Act of 2020” (H.R. 149), during a vote on February…
