The Campaign for Housing and Community Development (CHCDF) delivered a statement to Members of Congress explaining why a long-term stopgap funding measure, known as a continuing resolution (CR), puts…
The conventions are over. Candidates up and down the ballot are on the campaign trail making promises and asking for votes. Let’s join forces to make sure that affordable housing is on their agenda…
Minnesota affordable housing developers and operators continue to build momentum toward increasing energy efficiency for affordable housing. CenterPoint Energy and Xcel Energy recently launched the…
The J. Ronald Terwilliger Foundation for Housing America’s Families will host a day-long national Housing Forum at the George W. Bush Institute in Dallas, Texas on Friday, November 18, 2016. This…
NLIHC’s national Housing Trust Fund (HTF) Developer Advisory Group recently published two briefs on strategies for funding extremely low income (ELI) housing and on options and considerations related…
NLIHC provides state-specific information related to national Housing Trust Fund (HTF) allocation plans. The state resources can be found at: http://bit.ly/28SEBVd. These state pages are updated…
HUD, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) announced that the number of veterans experiencing homelessness decrease 47% since 2010. Between…
Direct legislation is more common in California than anywhere else in the country. On November 8, there will be 17 statewide ballot measures for voters to consider. Cities and counties throughout the…
Representative Mike Capuano (D-MA) and 31 other Democrats sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Mel Watt urging them to reassess the Obama…
Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA) introduced the “Housing for Homeless Students Act” (H.R. 5290), which would allow full-time students who are or recently have been homeless to qualify for rental…
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) will release tomorrow the House Republicans’ policy proposals for combatting poverty in America. In February, Speaker Ryan tasked House Republican leaders to develop a…
The Arizona state housing trust fund, one of the oldest housing trust funds in the nation, will soon double its funding as a result of the passage of HB 2666, the “Governor’s Economic Opportunity…