NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months:
Can I Live Congressional Briefing, Washington, DC, March 25
National…
The House of Representatives has passed $7.85 billion in funding for immediate Hurricane Harvey relief. It now heads to the Senate, where it will likely be combined with legislation to lift the debt…
As Hurricane Harvey survivors return to find their homes are uninhabitable or still inaccessible, Houston mayor Sylvester Turner continues to stress that his highest priorities are “housing, housing…
National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) President and CEO Diane Yentel authored an op-ed in CityLab on March 14 calling attention to NLIHC’s newest research on the nation’s lack of affordable…
Houston Housing Director Tom McCasland is urgently calling for short-term and long-term housing solutions for people displaced by Hurricane Harvey. Today, the Trump administration is expected to…
The Campaign for Housing and Community Development Funding (CHCDF) sent a letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committee leadership urging lawmakers to work together to lift caps on federal…
The NLIHC-led Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector affordable homes campaign recently commissioned a national public opinion poll to assess people's thoughts and perspectives on issues related to…
NLIHC released The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes 2019 on March 14. The report finds a shortage of 7 million affordable and available rental homes for households with extremely low incomes at or…
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security held a hearing, “Update on Recovery Efforts for 2017 and 2018 Disasters,” on March 12. Acting FEMA Administrator Peter Gaynor, the sole…
The deadline to purchase pre-event tickets to attend NLIHC’s March 28 Housing Leadership Awards Reception has been extended to tomorrow, March 19. The event will honor the affordable housing…
Despite being a critical resource for ensuring low-income families have an affordable home, public housing suffers from decades of underfunding by Congress. As a result, public housing agencies have…
