NLIHC urges all organizations concerned about homelessness and the lack of affordable homes in the U.S. to sign onto a letter calling on Congress to protect and expand the national Housing Trust Fund…
Sign your organization onto a letter from the Clean Budget Coalition (CBC) —a group of more than 100 organizations—telling Congress to reject harmful poison-pill policy riders in the FY18 spending…
The “Resources” page on the United for Homes (UFH) website includes images for Twitter and Facebook, data, fact sheets, and other tools to assist advocates in spreading the message about the simple…
NLIHC will release on June 8 the 2017 edition of its annual report, Out of Reach, which provides the “Housing Wage” a full-time worker must earn to afford a modest rental home in every state and…
A study by Sandra J. Newman and Scott Holupka, “Race and Assisted Housing,” published in Housing Policy Debate explores racial disparities between black and white families with children living in…
A copy of President Trump’s 2018 budget for HUD was leaked on May 19. The leaked budget would slash funding for affordable housing programs that millions of low income seniors, people with…
Democratic lawmakers urged their colleagues to come to a bipartisan agreement to raise federal spending caps equally for defense and nondefense programs for FY18. Without an agreement, the cap on non…
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue faced tough questions from representatives on the House Agriculture Committee about the administration’s proposal to eliminate the…
The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty (NLCHP) will host a policy forum to support its newly launched Housing Not Handcuffs national campaign, which fights against the criminalization of…
For those who were unable to attend the NLIHC 2017 Housing Policy Forum: Advancing Solutions in a Changing Landscape in Washington, DC on April 3-5, video recordings of all the plenary sessions…
The House Committee on Ways and Means held a hearing on May 18 on “How Tax Reform Will Grow Our Economy and Create Jobs.” Focusing almost entirely on corporate taxes, Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and…
Mortgage interest deduction (MID) reform continues to progress in the California state legislature. The “Bring California Home Act” (AB 71) would eliminate the state’s MID for second homes, which are…
