The House Committee on Appropriations approved by a voice vote its FY17 spending bill for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on April 19. As we reported last week (see Memo 4/18), the bill…
NLIHC joined 268 national organizations in sending a letter to Congress opposing a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The letter states, “A balanced budget constitutional…
House Democrats urged their colleagues to advance FY17 spending bills without policy riders that threaten to derail the appropriations process. More than 172 representatives sent a letter to House…
Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) and 28 of his Democratic colleagues introduced the “True LEADership Act” (S. 2821) a comprehensive plan to address lead poisoning, including several proposals related to…
HUD announced that the 39 public housing agencies (PHAs) currently participating in the Moving to Work (MTW) demonstration may continue to operate with reduced regulatory requirements until 2028.…
HUD released the final evaluation report of the Rapid Re-Housing for Homeless Families Demonstration (RRHD) Program. The evaluation, conducted by Abt Associates Inc., found that families enrolled who…
HUD’s Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs (SNAPS) released a guidebook and video designed to facilitate coordination between Continuums of Care (CoCs) and Consolidated Plan (ConPlan)…
A report by the Urban Institute titled Comparing Credit Profiles of American Renters and Owners shows that middle-aged homeowners between the ages of 36 and 55 were hit hard by the housing…
Source: Li, W. and Goodman, L. (2016). Comparing Credit Profiles of American Renters and Owners. Washington, DC: Urban Institute. Retrieved from http://urbn.is/1WLldvu.
The Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice (Hawaii Appleseed) released a report on April 13 titled “The State of Poverty in Hawaii: How Hawaii’s Low Income Residents Are Faring Post-…
NLIHC and several partner organizations are launching a social media campaign during the week of April 24-30—which the Department of Justice has designated “National Reentry Week”—to raise awareness…
Matthew Desmond, Harvard University professor and author of the best-selling book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, will participate in a Twitter chat co-hosted by NLIHC, the…
