Shalonda Rivers, president of the Cordoba Courts Tenants Association in Opa Locka, FL, and member of the NLIHC board of directors, testified at a hearing on November 20 before the House Financial…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months:
Homes RI Summit, Providence, RI, December 11
At What Price? The Hidden…
NLIHC’s board of directors unanimously approved the applications of four organizations as the newest additions to the NLIHC State Partner Coalition. Hawai’i Appleseed, Iowa Housing Partnership,…
A coalition of more than 850 local, state, & national organizations commends the House of Representatives for passing bipartisan legislation that will ensure long-term disaster recovery resources…
Will the presidential debate moderators ask the candidates about their proposed solutions to the housing crisis facing millions? Will the candidates find a way to bring up their affordable housing…
NLIHC will honor Jennifer Leimaile Ho, commissioner of Minnesota Housing and former senior advisor at HUD and deputy director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH), with the 2020…
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) introduced on November 14 the “Green New Deal for Public Housing Act,” (S. 2876) which would create new HUD grant…
The House Committee on Financial Services passed several bills on November 13, including H.R. 2398, which would allow chronically homeless veterans who have received an “other than honorable” (OTH)…
The House of Representatives will vote this week on a bipartisan bill to permanently authorize HUD’s Community Development Block Grant–Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program. The bill includes key…
The following is a review of additional disaster housing recovery developments since the last edition of Memo to Members and Partners (for the article in the previous Memo, see 11/11…
Congress plans to vote on a stopgap funding measure, known as a continuing resolution (CR), the week of November 18. This would be the second CR of fiscal year 2020 (FY20), which began on October 1;…
