The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing, “America’s Affordable Housing Crisis: Challenges and Solutions,” on August 1. The hearing focused on proposals to reform and enhance the Low Income…
HUD has posted for comment four forms required by the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (VAWA 2013) (see Memo, 3/1/13) and the implementing regulations (see Memo, 11/21/16). VAWA…
HUD posted a series of four videos about rent comparability studies (RCS) based on the recently revised Chapter 9 of the Section 8 Renewal Policy Guide (see Memo, 7/17). The videos provide…
A one-paragraph letter dated July 14, 2017 announced HUD’s acceptance of the eleventh submission of the Zoning Supplement to Westchester County’s Analysis of Impediments (AI) to fair housing choice.…
A new study by Kyle Barron, Edward Kung, and Davide Prosperpio, The Sharing Economy and Housing Affordability: Evidence from Airbnb, finds that a 10% increase in Airbnb listings in a neighborhood…
A working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Is It Who You Are or Where You Live? Residential Segregation and Racial Gaps in Childhood Asthma, indicates that residential neighborhoods…
Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. (2017). Worst Case Housing Needs:
2017 Report to Congress. Washington, DC: Author. Retrieved from: http://bit.ly/2ftHf9t
HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) issued Notice PIH 2017-12, providing guidance regarding complying with the requirement to use the Enterprise Income Verification System (EIV).…
Housing Action Illinois, an NLIHC state partner, turns 30 this year. In commemoration of three decades of outstanding organizing and advocacy for affordable housing, staff from Housing Action…
NLIHC has updated and streamlined its national Housing Trust Fund (HTF) website. In particular, the “HTF State Allocation Plan” section currently has the 2016 HUD-approved HTF Allocation Plans for…
The Urban Institute released a guidebook to help community organizations use data to improve fair housing and access to opportunity. “Using Data to Assess Fair Housing and Improve Access to…
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) posted updated, interactive state fact sheets about the Housing Choice Voucher program for each state and the District of Columbia. The fact sheets…
