Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) issued a request for ideas and feedback-due today, July 17- on how to improve the American tax system. NLIHC plans to submit the United for…
NLIHC continues to urge advocates to contact their members of Congress about fully funding rural housing programs. President Donald Trump’s proposed FY18 budget would require significant reductions…
HUD published an interim rule on December 12 that amends March 8, 2016 regulatory language for public housing, vouchers, and HUD Multifamily rental housing assistance programs (see Memo, 3/7/16). The…
HUD published a notice in the Federal Register on December 12, 2017 offering the public an opportunity to comment on its surprise August 11, 2017 two-year suspension of the requirement that public…
A new report by researchers at the RAND Corporation, Evaluation of Housing for Health Permanent Supportive Housing Program, examines Los Angeles County’s permanent supportive housing (PSH) program…
A report by the Technical Assistance Collaborative and the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities, Priced Out: The Housing Crisis for People with Disabilities, calls attention to the affordability…
Another significant victory for affordable homes in Los Angeles occurred when the City Council established a new fee on developers that will raise revenue for affordable housing production. The…
The Senate Banking Committee approved the “Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act” (S. 2155) on December 5. The bill includes provisions that would undermine the physical…
Congress averted a government shutdown by passing a two-week stopgap funding measure on December 7. The House passed the measure, known as a continuing resolution (CR), keeping the government…
HUD provided an advanced notice of its proposed EnVision Center Demonstration on December 7. When eventually published in the Federal Register, the notice will solicit comments on a demonstration to…
HUD released The 2017 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress last week. The assessment reveals that 553,742 people were homeless in the United States on a single night in January 2017,…
Recent research from the Housing Assistance Council, Proposed Changes to the Mortgage Interest Deduction and What They Could Mean for Rural America, examines the size of mortgages and the impacts of…
