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…
The City of Los Angeles may soon find itself in court to defend a long-standing policy that allows individual city council members to quietly block affordable and supportive housing developments…
Representative James Clyburn (D-SC) introduced the “Restoring Tax Credits for Affordable Housing Act” (HR 6542) on July 26. The bill would increase the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) annual…
HUD published a Federal Register notice on July 26 announcing the method it will use to determine the over-income limit of 120% of the area median income (AMI) as required by the “Housing Opportunity…
The Maryland Rental Housing Works (RHW), a program of the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) created six years ago to stimulate investment in quality, affordable rental…
NLIHC and other leaders of the Campaign for Housing and Community Development Funding (CHCDF) will discuss the current status and outlook for the FY19 funding process and how advocates can…
