Nearly two months into FY14, Congressional appropriators still cannot craft spending bills because the Budget Conference Committee has yet to provide FY14 spending caps. On November 18, House…
Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) have introduced legislation to make the federal Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act (PTFA) permanent, and to add a private…
Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) introduced S. 1754, the Higher Education Access and Success for Homeless and Foster Youth Act, on November 21. The bill…
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a November 19 hearing on disparate impact theory and whether the practice meets its goal of protecting against…
HUD has issued a notice on the “Second Allocation, Waivers, and Alternative Requirements for Grantees Receiving Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Disaster Recovery Funds in Response to…
Representatives of 22 NLIHC State Coalition Partner organizations gathered in Washington, D.C. for their semi-annual meeting on November 17-19. Throughout the meeting, the housing and homeless…
HUD released the 2012 Point-in-Time Estimates: Part 1 of the 2013 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress on November 21. These annual data come from a one-night count of sheltered and…
The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs has scheduled three more hearings related to housing finance reform for the week of November 18. These will be the eighth, ninth, and tenth…
In the eight months since sequestration was implemented, media outlets have reported on how sequestration has effected low income households. NLIHC collected and analyzed 314 articles published…
NLIHC President and CEO Sheila Crowley sent a letter to the leaders of Budget Conference Committee on November 15, asking for support for the National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF) in the forthcoming…
The United for Homes campaign proposes reducing the size of a mortgage eligible for a tax break from $1 million to $500,000, and converting the deduction to a 15% non-refundable credit. NLIHC has…
