The Trump administration nominated Anna Maria Farias to serve as HUD’s assistant secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO). Ms. Farias is the chair of the Board of Regents at Texas…
HUD published the official amounts of national Housing Trust Fund (HTF) allocations to states for FY17 in the Federal Register on June 23. Allocations were posted earlier on HUD’s website (see Memo,…
Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies released its annual State of the Nation’s Housing report on June 16. The report shows that 37% of American households - more than 43 million households —…
Source: Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. (2017). The State of the Nation’s Housing. Cambridge, MA: Author. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/1kKwpkW
Affordable housing and community development advocates from Delaware are working to gain passage of two bills designed to strengthen local governments’ ability to counter blight in their communities…
The latest attempt in a two-year effort to implement a $15 million senior housing bond package was narrowly defeated in the Maine state legislature on June 8. The bond would leverage an additional $…
The next NeighborWorks Training Institute (NTI) will take place in Philadelphia the week of August 14-18. The NTI offers more than 100 course offerings in affordable housing development and financing…
NLIHC updated its Congressional District and State Housing Profiles with Out of Reach 2017 data. The profiles are one-page snapshots of affordable housing and rental affordability in each of the 435…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months:
National Alliance to End Homelessness Conference in Washington, DC on July…
NLIHC is accepting applications for internship positions for the fall 2017 semester. 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 June 18:
“Amid California's housing crisis, last-minute bill would let Marin County limit home building,”…