The 2013 Opportunity Index was released on October 21. Jointly developed by Measure of America and Opportunity Nation, the Opportunity Index provides an overview of the opportunities available to…
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) filed “a motion to dismiss” in the U.S. District Court in Florida on October 16, 2013 regarding the lawsuit by NLIHC and others that seeks to require the…
The Honorable Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, and the City Council of Rochester, New York are the latest local elected officials to join the United for Homes campaign. In…
The federal government reopened on October 17 after being closed for 16 days while Congress struggled to reach agreement on stop gap funding and avert defaulting on the United States debt. If the…
The Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey, an NLIHC State Coalition Partner, joined other organizations in hosting a town hall meeting with Representative Robert Andrews (D-NJ) on…
A new report, Getting Home: Outcomes from Housing High Cost Homeless Hospital Patients, published by the Economic Roundtable, shows that placing high cost homeless hospital patients into permanent…
Mitch Peterson has joined NLIHC as a communications intern. While in college Mitch participated in Habitat for Humanity and interned at MAPLight, a nonprofit that shed light on the connection between…
The United for Homes campaign has released a two-minute video titled “The Solution.” The animated video explains the nationwide shortage of affordable housing, and how the campaign proposal to fund…
This is an update provided following the government shutdown. HUD’s Largest Programs Funded for October, After Which Uncertainty ReignsLast night, Congress failed to provide FY14 funding for the…
WASHINGTON – Sheila Crowley, President and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, issued the following statement on President Obama’s housing speech in Phoenix: Today President Barack…
