The House Committee on Financial Services will vote on two bills related to affordable housing on May 22. The committee will consider the “Housing Choice Voucher Mobility Demonstration Act of 2018” (…
The House Appropriations Transportation-HUD (THUD) Subcommittee voted to approve its FY19 spending bill on May 16. Members did not submit any amendments during the vote but may do so when the bill…
The Senate Committee on Appropriations released its markup schedule for FY19 appropriations bills. The committee is scheduled to hold a vote on the Transportation-HUD spending bill during the week of…
A HUD Exchange email arriving at 4:34 pm on Friday, May 18 announced that HUD would be publishing three separate notices in the Federal Register indefinitely suspending implementation of the 2015…
Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago, a Center for Independent Living (CIL) and advocate for people with disabilities, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois…
After months of delay, the Senate will vote on the nomination of Brian Montgomery for HUD assistant secretary for housing and commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). Mr. Montgomery…
A report by Carolina Reid from the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley, The Links Between Affordable Housing and Economic Mobility: The Experiences of Residents Living in Low-Income…
Housing advocates in Newark, NJ, are proposing new legislation that would guarantee a free lawyer for every low income resident facing evictions. Nine out of ten tenants facing eviction in Newark do…
The North Carolina Housing Coalition, an NLIHC state partner, developed a housing insecurity mapping tool in conjunction with the NC State University Geospatial Information Science and…
Resident Handbook: A Guide to NYCHA RAD Conversion was published to help residents of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) understand and influence the Rental Assistance Demonstration (…
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) has published An Advocate's Guide to Rural Housing Preservation: Prepayments, Mortgage Maturities, and Foreclosures. The guide focuses on saving USDA…
The Housing Association of Nonprofit Developers (HAND) will hold its 27th Annual Meeting & Housing Expo on June 12 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington DC. This event is the…
