HUD Secretary Ben Carson testified on March 22 at a Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Senators from both parties questioned the Trump administration’s proposals to increase…
Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) sent a letter to Committee Chair Jeb Hensarling on March 16 calling for HUD…
HUD has posted material to assist public housing agencies (PHAs) implement Small Area Fair Market Rents (Small Area FMRs or SAFMRs). The new guidance includes a 69-page Implementation Guidebook, a…
HUD’s Office of Affordable Housing Programs has released three “Ad Hoc HOME Reports.” One report shows the number of completed HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) units by state between the…
A report by the Urban Politics and Governance research group from the School of Urban Planning at McGill University, The High Cost of Short-Term Rentals in New York City, examines the impacts of…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months:
Make Room Journalism Study Tour, Houston, TX on March 27
Annual Fair…
In preparation for the 2017 election, affordable housing advocates in Virginia launched the Campaign for Housing and Civic Engagement (CHACE) in conjunction with Our Homes, Our Voices National…
Federal Budget Update: President Trump Tries Again to Eliminate and Reduce Housing Programs
President Donald Trump’s Fiscal Year 2019 budget request proposes deep cuts to housing benefits that help…
In response to President Trump’s infrastructure plan released in February, Senate Democrats have released the “Jobs & Infrastructure Plan for America’s Workers.” The new plan proposes $1 trillion…
NLIHC, the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH), and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) sent a letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees urging them to fund…
A group of more than 60 mayors sent a letter to the leadership of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees urging Congress to provide more federal funding for public housing. The long-term…
House appropriators expect to introduce a $1.3 trillion omnibus FY18 spending bill as early as March 15. The omnibus includes all 12 spending bills for the current fiscal that started on October 1,…
