December 15 is the deadline for submitting affordable housing success stories for a national report on the broad, positive impacts of HUD and USDA affordable housing programs to share with Members of…
NDD United, a broad group of stakeholders interested in protecting federal nondefense discretionary (NDD) funding, is coordinating a sign-on letter urging Congress to end the harmful sequester caps,…
The NLIHC-led United for Homes (UFH) campaign, calling for rebalanced federal housing investments through mortgage interest deduction (MID) reform, will relaunch on January 11. President-elect Trump…
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a nonpartisan agency that provides budget and economic analysis to Congress, released a new report on December 8 outlining the pros and cons of 115 proposals to…
With just hours to spare before the deadline, Congress avoided a government shutdown by passing a short-term continuing resolution (CR) on December 9. The CR maintains the FY17 spending cap of $1.07…
The Strengthening America’s Value and Economy (SAVE) for All Campaign is circulating a coalition letter urging Congress and President-elect Donald Trump to support policies that protect and assist…
NLIHC is accepting nominations for the 2017 Annual Organizing Award. The Organizing Award recognizes outstanding achievement during 2016 in state, local and/or resident organizing activity that…
Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) introduced the “Tax Benefit for Homeownership Clarification Act” (H.R. 6492) on December 8 to clarify the amount of mortgage interest a person can deduct from…
The Tax Policy Center (TPC), a joint center of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, completed a new analysis of the United for Homes’ (UFH) proposal to reform the mortgage interest…
HUD released the Community Assessment Reporting Tool (CART) on December 6. CART allows users to map and explore data about key HUD investments in cities, counties, metropolitan areas, congressional…
The Indiana Association for Community Economic Development (IACED), an NLIHC state partner, hosted its 30th Anniversary Celebration at the annual Prosperity Indiana Summit on November 14. The…
