The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of February 16:
“Bernie Sanders wants to spend $70B to modernize public housing, Pete Buttigieg wants to…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months:
Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disabilities…
Representative Grace Meng (D-NY) introduced the “Pathway to Stable and Affordable Housing for All Act” (H.R. 5813) in the House on February 7. A companion to the Senate bill introduced by Senator…
“Advancing Solutions to Homelessness through Effective Messaging” will be a featured session at NLIHC’s Housing Policy Forum 2020: Ending Homelessness and Housing Poverty, taking place in Washington…
HUD proposed drastic changes to the “Equal Participation of Faith-Based Organizations” rule (§5.109) on February 13. The proposed changes would remove the requirement that faith-based service…
Mayor Pete Buttigieg joins other Democratic presidential candidates in releasing bold plans to address the nation’s affordable housing crisis. All those who have run for the Democratic nomination,…
Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) and House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) introduced the “Legal Assistance to Prevent Evictions Act” on February 13. If enacted, the bill would establish a…
Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Representatives TJ Cox (D-CA), Kim Schrier (D-WA), and Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) introduced the “Allowing Steady Savings by Eliminating Tests (ASSET…
President Trump and HUD Secretary Ben Carson’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 budget request – released on February 10 – proposes to slash funding for HUD by an astounding $8.6 billion or 15% below…
House Democrats have unveiled a $760 billion blueprint for an infrastructure package that does not include robust resources to build or preserve affordable and accessible homes for America’s lowest-…
Homelessness is one of our country’s most urgent, tragic and solvable crises. We cannot end homelessness, however, by ignoring the evidence about what works. For this reason, NLIHC, the National…
