Join the United for Homes (UFH) campaign on May 17 to urge Congress to support modest reforms to the mortgage interest deduction (MID) that would benefit millions of lower income homeowners and to…
Join a webinar titled “Getting the Message Right: How to Stop Trump’s Proposed Cuts to Affordable Housing” on May 19, 3:00-4:00 pm ET.
In his spending blueprint for FY18, President Donald Trump…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on May 11 plans to reorganize the agency to establish an Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs. The plan also details other…
The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty will host a policy forum to support its newly-launched Housing Not Handcuffs national campaign, which fights against the criminalization of…
NLIHC will release the 2017 edition of its annual report, Out of Reach, on June 8. Out of Reach documents the gap between renters’ wages and the cost of rental housing in every state and…
Calls to reform to the mortgage interest deduction (MID) have appeared in two major news outlets in recent weeks. In an editorial titled “Houses of Lobbyists” on May 6, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)…
A report by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), Bank Branch Closures from 2008-2016: Unequal Impact in America’s Heartland, finds that bank closures since the Great Recession have…
A new law requires all counties in New Jersey to have a plan in place to shelter all homeless individuals during conditions of severe weather. The “Code Blue” law was signed by Governor Chris…
Social services providers from across Independence and eastern Jackson County, MO gathered for their third annual summit on May 9, organized under the theme of “working together for collective impact…
The Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC), HAI Group’s research center, will be hosting its second annual PAHRC Report Forum, How Sustainable Communities Create Resilient People…
The Banking Committee held a hearing on Thursday, May 11 on “The Status of the Housing Finance System after Nine Years of Conservatorship” with Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Mel Watt…
