The House approved by a vote of 227-194 on June 25 a five-bill FY20 spending package that includes robust funding for affordable housing and community development investments at HUD and…
Source: NLIHC tabulations of 2017 ACS PUMS data. NLIHC’s The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes
Extremely Low-Income (ELI): At or below the poverty line or 30% of area median income (AMI);…
Originally published in The Washington Post, July 1, 2019
Local zoning laws prohibiting communities from building apartments exacerbate the housing crisis and maintain segregated communities. An…
Advocates across the country came together on June 26 for a Day of Action to Keep Families Together to oppose HUD’s cruel proposal to force 25,000 mixed-status immigrant families – including 55,000…
NLIHC is pleased to welcome kenia jimenez as its newest summer policy intern.
kenia is a recent graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in sociology and minors in…
President Trump signed an executive order on June 25 establishing a White House Council on Eliminating Barriers to Affordable Housing Development to identify and remove obstacles that impede the…
Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) and 11 other Democratic senators introduced on June 27 the “Ensuring Equal Access to Shelter Act” (S. 2007) that would block a HUD proposed rule to weaken the enforcement…
A bipartisan group of policymakers – including Senators Todd Young (R-IN) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Representatives Joe Neguse (D-CO), Don Beyer (D-VA), and Jackie Walorski (R-IN) – introduced…
Senator Todd Young (R-IN) introduced on June 20 the “Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY) Act” (S. 1919), which aims to increase transparency and encourage affordable housing development in more communities by…
Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) on June 26 reintroduced the “Fair Housing Improvement Act of 2019” (S. 1986) which would prohibit housing discrimination based on source of income, veteran status, and…
The House Financial Services Committee approved on June 26 legislation introduced by Representative Chuy Garcia (D-IL) to protect residents of federally assisted housing from carbon monoxide…
