The Senate Committee on Banking held a hearing on June 29 to discuss principles of housing finance reform. Senators expressed increasing interest in a bipartisan housing finance reform bill this year…
A report by the Urban Institute, titled A Paired-Testing Pilot Study of Housing Discrimination against Same-Sex Couples and Transgender Individuals, finds that transgender individuals and male…
NLIHC, together with state, local, and national partners, has expanded the Our Homes, Our Voices campaign this summer to include a week of activities across the country calling for increased federal…
More than 1,000 national, state, and local organizations have signed onto NLIHC’s letter urging Congress to protect and expand the national Housing Trust Fund (HTF), which President Trump proposed to…
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 investments. The president’s…
Republican leaders of the House Budget Committee hope to vote on a FY18 budget resolution this week, even as House GOP members continue to disagree on overall fiscal policy. The Republican proposal…
Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), a cofounder of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, introduced a bill that would consolidate nearly all federal affordable housing programs into state block grants…
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 —…
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 $…
