The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced on February 14 that it would protect funding for the national Housing Trust Fund (HTF) in 2018. The recently passed tax law caused a devaluation of…
Ben Austen, contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine and author of High Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing, will address the NLIHC 2018 Housing Policy Forum: Building the…
Several Senate and House committees held hearings on President Donald Trump’s proposed FY19 budget, which would dramatically cut HUD and USDA affordable housing programs and other non-defense…
An article by Matthew Desmond and Carl Gershenson published in 2016 in Social Problems, “Housing and Employment Insecurity among the Working Poor,” shows that working renters who lose their home,…
Prosperity Now’s 2018 Scorecard ranks all 50 states and the District of Columbia on residents’ financial well-being. Their report, Whose Bad Choices? How Policy Precludes Prosperity and What We Can…
Advocates in Florida are working to ensure legislative action to fully utilize housing resources. The State Senate took a significant step on February 7, voting to utilize all funds from the state…
Alabama Arise, an NLIHC state partner, hosted its annual Legislative Day at the State House in Montgomery, AL, on February 6. The group gathered nearly 200 individuals from across the state to speak…
The Trump administration proposed on May 9 to cut $15.3 billion in previously approved funding to domestic programs, including cuts to vital affordable housing and community development programs.…
In response to HUD Secretary Ben Carson’s proposal to increase rents and impose work requirements on the lowest income households, House Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-…
House Democratic Policy & Communications Committee (DPCC) Co-Chair Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Representative Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA), and Boston Mayor Martin…
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation and Housing and Urban Development (THUD) will vote on its FY19 funding bill on May 16 at 5:00 pm ET in room 2358-B of the Rayburn House Office…
HUD’s Spring Regulatory Agenda was posted on May 9, 2018 by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) of the Office of Management and Budget. Notably, the Fall 2017 Long-Term Agenda had…
