The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released two reports describing multiple deficiencies in federal disaster response. The first report found that FEMA and the American Red Cross failed to…
A new study published in Health Affairs, “Can Medicaid Expansion Prevent Housing Evictions?,” found that early Medicaid expansion in California was associated with an average reduction of 24.5 fewer…
A report published by the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, “Measuring Fidelity to HUD’s Small Area Fair Market Rents (SAFMRs) Rule: Lessons from First Year Implementation,” evaluates the…
The U.S. Census Bureau released new aggregate tables from the 1-Year 2018 American Community Survey (ACS) on September 26 showing millions of renter households are housing cost-burdened.
The ACS is…
The Minneapolis City Council unanimously passed on September 13 an ordinance that establishes historic new tenant protections. The ordinance limits tenant screening practices by landlords on the…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of September 22:
“Call for City to Take Aggressive Steps on Affordable Homeownership,” City Limits, September…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months:
Housing Matters Speaker Series, Fannie Mae, Georgia State University,…
It’s been three weeks since I returned to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, this time as its President and CEO – what an exhilarating and inspiring time. I began just before NLIHC’s annual…
Many of you may remember Sheila Crowley's weekly “Point of View” column in Memo to Members. For those of us working on housing policy in the late 1990's and early 2000's, it was essential reading.…
When you read this, I will have spent my last day as a staff member of the National Low Income Housing Coalition. After 17-plus years here and 40 some years at this work, I have retired, at least for…
Our country faces an alarming gap between the housing needs of our nation’s poorest households and what is available and affordable to them. The result is rising family homelessness in cities across…
