As Connecticut braces for sequestration, Governor Dannel Malloy (D) proposed that the State’s biennial budget include an additional $217.5 million for the creation and renovation of affordable and…
NLIHC’s latest Housing Spotlight provides new evidence of the deepening housing shortage nationwide. In 2011, the number of extremely low income (ELI) renter households, with incomes at or below 30%…
NLIHC’s Policy Fact Sheets have been updated for March. Fact sheets provide the latest summaries of a variety of issues, including those on appropriations, the National Housing Trust Fund, vouchers,…
NLIHC is pleased to announce that Nikole Hannah-Jones and Jeff Larson of ProPublica will receive the 2013 Media Award for the series, “Living Apart: Fair Housing in America.” The NLIHC Media Award…
There is just one week remaining to register online for United for Action, the NLIHC 2013 housing policy conference and lobby day. Online registration will close on March 11. Mailed registrations…
The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Bipartisan Housing Commission released its report on the future of federal housing policy on February 25. Of great importance to advocates for low income rental housing…
The Senate Budget Committee, chaired by Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), will hold a hearing on March 5 entitled, “Reducing the Deficit by Eliminating Wasteful Spending in the Tax Code.” The witnesses…
Lawmakers in Washington, D.C. spent the last week of February scrambling unsuccessfully to avoid sequestration. On March 1 at 8:31 pm President Barack Obama signed the executive order requiring…
Congress spent another week juggling the major fiscal challenges of finalizing FY13 spending, addressing sequestration, and developing an FY14 budget, but made little progress due to lack of regular…
The House of Representatives approved the Senate-passed Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) reauthorization bill, S. 47, on February 28. The measure, which passed the Senate on February 12 (see Memo, 2…
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) was the focus of a Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs hearing on February 28. Dubbed the second part of a hearing held by the committee in…
