Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Acting Director Joseph Otting announced on April 4 that he has authorized the disbursement of Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac's 2018 allocations of $244.86 million…
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The newest edition of Tenant Talk explores the issues of gentrification, neighborhood revitalization, and resident displacement. The publication provides readers a…
HUD Secretary Ben Carson testified on the Trump administration’s FY20 budget request before both the House and the Senate Appropriations Transportation-HUD (THUD) Subcommittees on April 3. Lawmakers…
Nearly 500 affordable housing advocates and providers, resident leaders, researchers, and policy makers from around the country attended the NLIHC 2018 Housing Policy Forum: Seizing the Movement…
NLIHC and a crowd of approximately 300 honored Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Dr. Mitchell Katz, and Emma “Pinky” Clifford with the 2019 Housing Leadership Awards at a presentation and…
The House Financial Services Committee approved, by a vote of 32-26, the “Ending Homelessness Act of 2019” (H.R. 1856) on March 28. The legislation was first introduced by House Financial Services…
The House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on April 2 to review the Fair Housing Act and related efforts to eliminate discrimination and promote opportunity in housing. Witnesses testified…
The Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector affordable homes campaign released on March 28 at the NLIHC Housing Policy Forum the results of a nationwide public opinion poll it commissioned with Hart…
HUD published the long-awaited update to the 1994 interim Section 3 rule on April 4. Several potential improvements are proposed, such as using “labor hours worked” instead of “new hires” in many…
HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) issued Notice PIH 2019-05, further streamlining the process for a public housing agency (PHA) with fewer than 250 public housing units (“Small PHA”) to…
Senator Todd Young (R-IN) provided a keynote address at NLIHC’s Policy Forum on March 27, explaining to attendees why tackling the affordable housing crisis has become one of his top priorities as a…
