House Republicans have agreed on a plan to fund the federal government through March to avoid negotiating with President Obama over a final spending package for FY17. The stopgap spending measure,…
HUD issued a final rule on November 17 that applies the provisions of the 2012 Equal Access in Housing rule to Native American and Native Hawaiian programs to ensure that all individuals and families…
HUD published in the Federal Register on November 16 the final Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) rule providing housing protections for domestic violence survivors. HUD released an advance version of…
The University of Pittsburgh hosted a Pittsburgh Housing Summit: Human Rights and Housing in the 21st Century on November 10-12. The conference featured an array of lectures, discussion panels,…
The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law will host a panel discussion on the importance of ensuring access to affordable housing for individuals with criminal records. The event will be…
Affordable housing funding at risk: Raise your voice this Thursday and tell Congress to pass a clean budget as soon as possible!
Join us for a Twitter storm this Thursday, November 17 from 2…
Join NLIHC and the Clean Budget Coalition for a Twitter storm on November 17 at 2:00 pm ET to tell Congress to pass clean FY17 spending bills and to reject harmful policy riders that threaten to…
HUD and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released a Joint Statement updating guidance about how the federal Fair Housing Act applies to state and local land use and zoning laws. The guidance is…
HUD issued a notice in the Federal Register on May 4 establishing a second opportunity to comment on a draft Operations Notice for the expansion of the Moving to Work (MTW) demonstration published on…
The Supreme Court ruled in a 5-3 decision that cities, not just individuals, may sue for alleged violations of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 (FHA). The Court unanimously ruled, however, that the city…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected on April 28 the consolidated sixth and seventh appeals by Westchester County, NY to a district court’s ongoing efforts to ensure that the…
Housing advocates in San Francisco took to the streets on April 27, voicing strong opposition both to President Donald Trump’s proposed $6 billion cut to HUD programs and to a proposal being…
