United for Homes endorsers are invited to join a webinar, “Back to School: Campus Activism and the United for Homes Campaign,” on September 13 at 2 pm ET. Presenters from NLIHC and a number of United…
The House plans to vote on the FY18 Transportation-HUD (THUD) spending bill in the first few days of September after members of Congress return from their month-long recess. The current plan is for…
HUD has suspended the obligation of public housing agencies (PHAs) in 23 metropolitan areas to implement Small Area Fair Market Rents (SAFMRs). The office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) sent…
HUD has issued a fact sheet about Enhanced Vouchers (EVs) that public housing agencies will now be required to issue to tenants when owners of private HUD-assisted housing decide no longer to…
New York City passed legislation on August 11 guaranteeing low income renters the right to representation during eviction proceedings, the first such law in the U.S. Advocates are celebrating the…
The fourth biennial Housing First Partners Conference: Assuring Program Integrity in a Changing Environment, taking place in Denver, CO April 9-12, 2018, has issued a call for presenters. The three-…
The Senate confirmed a slate of nominations before it went on August recess, including for key positions at HUD and the Treasury. The Senate confirmed Neal Rackleff as assistant secretary for HUD’s…
HUD published on August 9 its Worst Case Housing Needs: 2017 Report to Congress, showing that 8.3 million unassisted very low income households in America spend more than half of their income on…
Sheila Greenwood, chief of staff to HUD Secretary Ben Carson, announced a number additions to the HUD senior management team.
Dana Wade is the general deputy assistant secretary in the Office of…
HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing Programs conducted two webcasts about Notice H 2017-05, guidance it recently issued regarding the final rule implementing the Violence Against Women…
HUD posted a series of four videos about rent comparability studies (RCS) based on the recently revised Chapter 9 of the Section 8 Renewal Policy Guide (see Memo, 7/17). The videos provide…
A one-paragraph letter dated July 14, 2017 announced HUD’s acceptance of the eleventh submission of the Zoning Supplement to Westchester County’s Analysis of Impediments (AI) to fair housing choice.…
