On October 21, several national housing organizations committed to advancing areas of agreement from previous housing assistance reform bills sent a letter to House and Senate appropriators, urging…
A new audit from HUD’s Inspector General (IG) of the Moving to Work (MTW) demonstration program states HUD needs to improve its oversight of the program, especially since Congress considers expanding…
A congressional briefing to commemorate National Homeless Awareness Month has been scheduled for November 13. The briefing will be held at 11 am in room 2325 of the Rayburn House office building. The…
The California Housing Partnership Corporation (CHPC) and California Coalition for Rural Housing (CCRH), both NLIHC State Coalition Partners, have succeeded in their efforts to prevent more than 2,…
The 2013 Opportunity Index was released on October 21. Jointly developed by Measure of America and Opportunity Nation, the Opportunity Index provides an overview of the opportunities available to…
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) filed “a motion to dismiss” in the U.S. District Court in Florida on October 16, 2013 regarding the lawsuit by NLIHC and others that seeks to require the…
The Honorable Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, and the City Council of Rochester, New York are the latest local elected officials to join the United for Homes campaign. In…
The federal government reopened on October 17 after being closed for 16 days while Congress struggled to reach agreement on stop gap funding and avert defaulting on the United States debt. If the…
The Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey, an NLIHC State Coalition Partner, joined other organizations in hosting a town hall meeting with Representative Robert Andrews (D-NJ) on…
A new report, Getting Home: Outcomes from Housing High Cost Homeless Hospital Patients, published by the Economic Roundtable, shows that placing high cost homeless hospital patients into permanent…
