HUD’s Office of Affordable Housing Programs (OAHP) issued Notice CPD 18-09, providing guidance to jurisdictions about the homebuyer program requirements of the Home Investment Partnerships Program (…
A report by Lucius Couloute of the Prison Policy Initiative, Nowhere to Go: Homelessness among formerly incarcerated people, finds that formerly incarcerated people are nearly ten times more likely…
Senators Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) separately introduced bold proposals to create fully refundable tax credits for cost-burdened renters, households spending more than 30% of their…
The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) has prepared a sample comment letter and a more detailed sign-on letter in response to HUD’s Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking comments…
A study published in Cityscape, “Employment and Earnings Trajectories During Two Decades Among Adults in New York City Homeless Shelters” suggests an association between employment shocks and the…
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced the “Housing, Opportunity, Mobility, and Equity (HOME) Act” (S.3342) on August 1. This bold new bill provides a refundable tax credit to individuals who spend…
The Senate voted 92-6 on August 1 to approve its FY19 Transportation-HUD (THUD) spending bill, which provides robust funding for affordable housing and community development programs. Overall, the…
The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) has released The People’s Budget: A Progressive Path Forward for FY19. The proposed budget would fully fund programs to make housing affordable and…
HUD sent on August 2 a pre-rule, “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing [AFFH]: Streamlining and Enhancement,” for review by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) at the Office of…
The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) has prepared a sample comment letter and a more detailed sign-on letter in response to HUD’s Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking comments…
Public housing agencies (PHAs) were required to implement smoke-free policies by July 31. A final rule published on December 5, 2016, required PHAs to design and implement policies prohibiting the…
A study published in Cityscape, “Work Requirements and Well-Being in Public Housing” by Kirstin Frescoln, Mai Thi Nguyen, William Rohe, and Michael Webb, examines how work requirements imposed by the…
