The House approved its FY17 defense spending bill by a vote of 371-48 on March 8. The House may now turn to an omnibus package that will include the remaining ten unfinished FY17 spending bills,…
Eleven U.S. senators joined Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) to introduce the “Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2017” (S. 548). Original cosponsors include Senators…
Several Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee sent a letter on March 10 to newly confirmed HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson on a report by the Washington Post that the Trump administration is…
Dr. Ben Carson gave his first public remarks last week after the Senate voted to confirm him as HUD secretary on March 2. In speeches on March 6 to HUD employees and to attendees at the National…
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ (CBPP) updated Chart Book: Federal Housing Spending is Poorly Matched to Need continues to show how federal housing expenditures disproportionately benefit…
Los Angeles County voters took major steps toward ending homelessness at the ballot box on March 7. By slightly more than the two-thirds majority needed, voters passed Measure H to generate…
The next NeighborWorks Training Institute (NTI) will take place May 22-26 in Minneapolis, MN. The NTI offers more than 100 course offerings in affordable housing development and financing; housing…
Note: Low income households have income at or less than 80 percent of area median income.
Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. (2017). Interactive Graphic: Highlighting the 3 Out of 4…
HUD is immediately withdrawing a Federal Register “notice of proposed information collection” regarding a proposed requirement to post notifications about equal access regardless of sexual…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of March 5:
“Fair-housing groups blast Trump administration’s potential HUD cuts as ‘cruel’ and ‘…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of March 5:
“Fair-housing groups blast Trump administration’s potential HUD cuts as ‘cruel’ and ‘…
President Barack Obama’s budget request for Rural Development, within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), includes a new minimum rent policy for the program’s lowest income households. The…
