The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of May 14:
“HUD budget slashes housing programs, drawing protests from advocates,” Politico, May 19 at: http://…
WASHINGTON, D.C.- President Trump’s 2018 budget – leaked earlier today – reflects a cruel indifference to the millions of low income seniors, people with disabilities, families with children,…
Welcome, NLIHC Members
Thank you for supporting the National Low Income Housing Coalition through your membership! Achieving our mission will only be possible through the work and…
By Diane Yentel, NLIHC President and CEO
Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT)
During such a pivotal election year, and at a time when the pervasive lack of affordable housing is gaining…
NLIHC has joined the Clean Budget Coalition (CBC) —a group of more than 100 organizations—to urge Congress to reject harmful poison-pill policy riders in the FY18 spending bills. NLIHC has also…
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…
As Congress begins considering funding levels for FY18 and taking up housing finance reform legislation, NLIHC urges all organizations concerned about homelessness and the lack of affordable homes in…
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)…
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…
