After a tense state legislative session, a $46 billion budget has passed in Minnesota with $77 million in bond funding for housing and more than $5 million in expanded support for homeless programs.…
President Donald Trump’s FY18 budget proposal would eliminate funding to the national Housing Trust Fund (HTF). NLIHC urges all organizations concerned about homelessness and the lack of affordable…
Five civil rights organizations representing three plaintiffs sued HUD because it suspended for two years implementation of the Small Area Fair Market Rent rule (see Memo, 8/21/17). As the…
An analysis conducted by Jae Sik Jeon featured in Shelterforce shows that the implementation of Small Area Fair Market Rents (FMRs) in the Washington, DC metropolitan area would increase the supply…
Amidst growing concerns about housing affordability and residential displacement, Newark NJ Mayor Ras Baraka signed two key affordable housing ordinances into law on October 12th. Ironbound Community…
The NeighborWorks Training Institute (NTI) comes to Washington, DC the week of December 11-15. The NTI offers more than 100 course offerings in affordable housing development and financing; housing…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months:
Texas Association of CDC Policy Summit, Austin, TX, on November 1…
Ask your representatives to sign onto Representative Keith Ellison's (D-MN) "Dear Colleague" letter urging Congress to reinvest any savings from changes to the mortgage interest deduction and…
The Senate passed their budget resolution on October 19 calling for flat funding for non-discretionary programs in FY18 and cuts of over $600 billion over the following 10 years. These cuts are…
NLIHC’s 2018 Housing Policy Forum: Building the Movement will address fair housing in American on the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act. Confirmed and invited speakers include Richard…
Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN), Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and NLIHC hosted a congressional briefing on October 17 to discuss the benefits of reforming the mortgage interest deduction (MID)…
A report released by NLIHC and the Institute on Assets and Social Policy (IASP) at Brandeis University, Misdirected Investments: How the Mortgage Interest Deduction Drives Inequality and the Racial…
