The Campaign for Housing and Community Development Funding (CHCDF) hosted a Capitol Hill briefing, “An Overview of the President’s FY19 Budget Request for Affordable Housing and Community Development…
The House Financial Services Committee approved its FY19 Budget Views and Estimates by a vote of 32 to 25 on March 6. This document is submitted to the House Budget Committee for consideration in…
Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS), chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced on March 5 that he will resign from the Senate on April 1, citing ongoing health challenges. Mr. Cochran first won…
NLIHC submitted comments regarding HUD effectively suspending without warning the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule on January 5. Even though the suspension was immediate, the Federal…
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is proposing wide-ranging changes to the regulations governing the Federal Home Loan Banks’ (Banks) Affordable Housing Program (AHP). The proposed amendments…
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago released a research brief on youth homelessness, Missed Opportunities: Youth Homelessness in America, National Estimates, which examines the size and…
A report by Elise Gould of the Economic Policy Institute, The State of American Wages 2017, shows the growing inequality in earnings between high-wage and low-wage workers. From 2000 to 2017, the…
Housing advocates in Illinois are proposing new legislation that would protect renters unfairly penalized for being a defendant in an eviction hearing. Currently, thousands of Illinois renters…
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…
Housing benefits are under attack.
President Donald Trump’s FY19 budget request slashes federal housing benefits that help millions of low income seniors, people with disabilities,…
Kansas City, MO will host the NeighborWorks Training Institute (NTI) the week of May 7-11. The NTI offers more than 100-course offerings in affordable housing development and financing; housing asset…
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) will be hosting six 30-minute introductory webinars about preserving HUD-assisted Multifamily housing. For every new affordable home created, two are lost due…
