Source: NLIHC’s Out of Reach 2019. Housing wages based on HUD fair market rents. The hourly wages by percentile from the Economic Policy Institute State of Working America Data Library 2018.…
Source: Martin, P. et. al. (2019). Adults with Housing Insecurity Have Worse Access to Primary and Preventive Care. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 32(4): 521-530.
Washington, DC - HUD’s new proposed rule on disparate impact is the latest in a series of efforts by the Trump administration to gut civil rights and fair housing protections. Under this…
I’ve never before called policy proposals hateful, but Secretary Carson’s latest series of them are just that. He proposes policies designed to increase homelessness and suffering, and even the risk…
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) wrote a letter to President Trump on July 24 responding to a Fox News interview with the president during which he commented on addressing homelessness in America.…
The House passed a two-year FY20-21 budget deal (H.R. 3877) on July 25 by a vote of 284-149. Congressional leadership and the White House announced on July 23 that they had reached an agreement to…
Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló announced on July 24 that he would resign from office, after massive island-wide protests and the start of impeachment proceedings in the Puerto Rico House of…
The House voted on July 24 to pass a pair of bills that aim to improve public access to fiscal information about the use of federal disaster recovery funds.
The “Post-Disaster Assistance Online…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel sent a letter on July 23 to FEMA Acting Administrator Mark Gaynor on behalf of the Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition (DHRC) expressing significant concerns…
