Three Trump administration officials testified before the Senate Banking Committee on September 10 about the White House’s plan for housing finance reform. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, HUD…
Representative Madeline Dean (D-PA) reintroduced on September 12 a substantially improved version of the “Fostering Stable Housing Opportunities Act” (H.R. 4300) to expand the availability of Family…
News of the Trump administration’s potential plans to address California’s homeless crisis in a harmful and unjust manner made headlines last week, and yet the Democratic presidential debate…
Affordable homes are built with ballots every bit as much as they are built with bricks and drywall. To elevate affordable rental housing as a top priority for policymakers, it is critical to…
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 9/09…
The Trump administration may be considering taking measures to further criminalize or otherwise punish poor people for their poverty, including possibly sweeping unhoused people into increasingly…
HUD’s Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) has posted lists of health and safety items for each inspectable area to be inspected as part of REAC’s National Standards for the Physical Inspection of…
NLIHC voiced opposition to a proposed rule published in the Federal Register on July 23 that would end “broad-based categorical eligibility” for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP;…
A set of three reports from the United States Census Bureau—Income and Poverty in the United States: 2018, Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2018, and The Supplemental Poverty Measure:…
NLIHC state partner Prosperity Indiana participated on August 7 in a roundtable discussion in Fort Wayne, IN, on the city’s affordable housing crisis and high rate of evictions—the thirteenth highest…
Ivory Innovations, an organization that “brings together stakeholders of public and private organizations to support solutions to the national housing affordability crisis,” inaugurated an Ivory…
