Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 1-Year 2018 American Community Survey. Housing cost-burdened households spend 30% or more of their income on housing. Severely cost-burdened households spend 50% or more…
September is NLIHC’s annual Membership Month, and we are setting our sights on a third straight year of more than 100 new members. NLIHC is a membership organization comprised of over 1,200 housing…
Today is the last day of NLIHC’s 2019 Membership Month – and we’ve exceeded our goals! Thanks to all of you who helped us welcome over 100 new NLIHC members! Let’s finish out Membership Month by…
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 9/23…
Two tropical storms crossed over parts of the United States this past week. Remains of Tropical Storm Imelda hit Southeast Texas, dumping large amounts of rain on the region and claiming five lives.…
A bicameral group of 45 Democratic members of the California congressional delegation sent a letter on September 19 to President Donald Trump criticizing his recent threats to further criminalize…
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) unveiled “A Just Society,” an ambitious anti-poverty proposal, on September 25. The proposal aims to improve federal anti-poverty interventions through…
The 2020 presidential candidates are making affordable housing a central part of their campaigns as never before. In just the last week:
Senator Warren toured the Golfview Mobile Home Court in…
CommunityVotes, a New York state-based non-profit that provides support to community-based service organizations to help them engage citizens who traditionally do not exercise their right to vote,…
The next debates for leading democratic candidates take place on October 15 in Ohio. We have reopened the Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020 sign-on letter to debate moderators; new organizational signers…
The first episode of the 15-month webinar and podcast series “Our Homes, Our Votes 2020: Third Thursdays at Three” is now available at www.ourhomes-ourvotes.org/webinars. The webinar originally…
