The MacArthur Foundation released findings from its 2016 How Housing Matters Survey on June 16. Eighty-one percent of respondents believed that housing affordability is a problem, and 68% believed…
A publication by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), titled Chart Book: Federal Housing Spending Is Poorly Matched to Need, illustrates the extent to which federal housing expenditures…
A report by Civic Enterprises and Hart Research Associates, Hidden in Plain Sight: Homeless Students in America’s Public Schools, analyzes the increase in housing instability among children in public…
HUD has made two amendments to the current interim Continuum of Care (CoC) program regulations. One amendment allows individuals and families to choose to live outside of a CoC’s geographic area…
HUD published a proposed rule to use Small Area Fair Market Rents (Small Area FMRs) instead of 50th Percentile FMRs as a means to deconcentrate the use of Housing Choice vouchers in select…
New Hampshire housing advocates, including Housing Action NH, an NLIHC state partner, are celebrating a vote by the State Legislature for a $2 million appropriation for supportive housing for people…
Emphasizing housing as a bipartisan issue, the North Carolina Housing Coalition (NC Housing Coalition), an NLIHC state partner, has played a lead role to reverse a decade-long trend of declining…
NLIHC will be airing a live podcast radio show to discuss the findings of this year’s Out of Reach report and the housing affordability crisis in the U.S. Listeners will have the opportunity to call-…
Source: Civic Enterprises. (2016). Hidden in Plain Sight: Homeless Students in America’s Public Schools. Ingram, et al. http://civicenterprises.net/MediaLibrary/Docs/HiddeninPlainSightOfficial.pdf…
Dr. Sheila Crowley, former president and CEO of NLIHC, testified before the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Platform Drafting Committee on June 8 on the housing needs of the lowest income people…
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) will hold a webinar focused on protecting tenants in communities where their public housing is being converted to project-based vouchers (PBV) or Section 8…
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) will conduct a webinar about HUD’s “Streamlining Rule” issued in March (see Memo, 3/7). The rule revised regulations governing many federal housing programs,…
