A Freddie Mac report, Will the Hispanic Homeownership Gap Persist, examines the homeownership gap between white and Hispanic households. The current homeownership rate in the U.S. for Hispanics is 45…
The Arizona Housing Alliance and the Arizona Coalition to End Homelessness (AZCEH) are merging to form the Arizona Housing Coalition. The new coalition will participate in NLIHC’s state partner…
More than 100 New York City housing and homelessness advocates, including homeless people and tenants of rent-regulated, subsidized, and public housing units, staged a “Cuomoville” demonstration and…
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, Washington, DC on July…
The Our Homes, Our Voices Housing Day of Action has expanded into a National Housing Week of Action, a full week of activities July 22-29 across the country calling for increased federal investments…
NLIHC urges advocates to contact their members of Congress to oppose the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to rural housing for FY18 and to fully fund rural housing programs. The president’s…
United for Homes endorsers are invited to join a webinar, “Direct Action and the United for Homes Campaign: Disruption and Agitation in the Effort for MID Reform,” on July 12 at 2 pm ET. Presenters…
Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Committee on Financial Services, introduced the “Public Housing Tenant Protection and Reinvestment Act of 2017” on June 29. The bill seeks…
Senate Democrats sent a letter on June 26 to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senator Appropriations Committee Chair Thad Cochran (R-MS) stressing the need for a bipartisan, bicameral…
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, whose jurisdiction includes U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) rural affordable housing programs, voted on its FY18 spending bill. The draft…
Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-CA), along with all the Committee’s Democratic members, sent a letter on June 27 to Committee Chair Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) requesting…
Each year, HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) issues a notice explaining how it will implement the latest appropriations act provisions for the Housing Choice Voucher program. …
