For years the mortgage interest deduction (MID) was considered an untouchable third rail program. Powerful opponents with deep pockets created a sturdy mythology around the program’s importance: it…
Funding for affordable housing, community development, and transportation programs is threatened. Contact Congress today and tell them to protect the federal spending needed to ensure families and…
The Senate voted to confirm two of President Donald Trump’s nominees for cabinet positions. Steven Mnuchin was confirmed on February 13 as secretary of the Department of the Treasury by a largely…
The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources held a hearing on “The Geography of Poverty” the week of February 12. The hearing explored the increasing poverty in suburban…
HUD has approved 38 national Housing Trust Fund (HTF) Allocation Plans as of February 17. Of the 38, HUD has publicly identified 21: Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana,…
HUD published Notice PIH-2017-03 providing guidance to public housing agencies (PHAs) regarding instituting and enforcing smoke-free policies in public housing, as required by a final rule issued on…
NLIHC will hold a webinar on the 2017 edition of its report The GAP: A Shortage of Affordable Homes on March 2. The report measures the availability of rental housing affordable to extremely low…
Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) reintroduced on February 8 the “Common Sense Housing Investment Act of 2017,” (H.R. 948) to end homelessness and housing poverty through tax reform. The bill calls…
A report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), Poverty Reduction Programs Help Adults Lacking College Degrees the Most, finds that 87% of working-age adults (18 to 64 years of age)…
Texas Low Income Housing Information Service (Texas Housers), an NLIHC state partner, released a report on January 25 titled “Fair Housing and Balanced Choices: Did Texas Reduce Government-Funded…
Source: Joint Committee on Taxation. (2017). Estimates of federal tax expenditures for fiscal years 2016-2020. Washington, DC: Author. Retrieved from https://www.jct.gov/publications.html?func=…
A report by Michael Hankinson at Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, When Do Renters Behave Like Homeowners? High Rent, Price Anxiety, and NIMBYism, finds that renters in high-cost housing…
