Sign two letters calling on Congress to reject President Donald Trump’s FY19 proposals to slash funding to federal affordable housing programs and to impose harmful rent increases and arbitrary…
Extremely low income households have incomes at or below the poverty level or 30% of their area median income.
Source: NLIHC tabulation of 2016 ACS PUMS.
In response to the Trump administration’s proposals to raise rents for HUD-assisted households, the New York Housing Conference (NYHC) has developed the #TrumpRentHike Calculator, an advocacy tool to…
The Urban Institute released an interim evaluation of new permanent supportive housing (PSH) projects funded by the Missouri Foundation for Health’s Show Me Healthy Housing (SMHH) program, a grant…
Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-CA) requested on February 23 that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conduct a study on the state of homelessness in America. Ms.…
Senator Sherrod Brown
U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) will speak at the launch of a new national multi-sector affordable housing campaign at the NLIHC 2018 Housing Policy Forum: Building…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months:
NCSHA Legislative Conference, Washington, DC on March 7
Make Room…
NLIHC is accepting applications for a graphic design/communications intern for the summer. Interns are highly valued and fully integrated into our staff work. We seek students passionate about social…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of February 25:
“Affordable Housing Shortage,” CQ Researcher, March 2 at: http://bit.ly/2oJV2de
“Utah…
Washington – The National Low Income Housing Coalition and its partners, on behalf of the Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition of over 700 national, state, and local organizations, condemn FEMA’s…
General Updates
Plagiarized Contract. Senators Claire McCakill (D-MO), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), and Gary Peters (D-MI) found that a company plagiarized their contract proposal with FEMA. FEMA ended…
