Nominations for the 2017 NLIHC Annual Organizing Award are due 5 pm ET, Wednesday, February 1! The Organizing Award recognizes outstanding achievement during 2016 in state, local and/or resident…
NLIHC is pleased to welcome Hannah Keith as our communication and graphic design intern for the spring. Hannah recently graduated from High Point University, where she earned a degree in…
NLIHC relaunched of the United for Homes (UFH) campaign with a webinar attended by some of the more than 2300 current organizational UHF endorsers on January 11. The campaign calls on Congress to…
The Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee held a confirmation hearing on Dr. Ben Carson, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of the HUD on Thursday, January 12.
Dr.…
Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ) introduced H.R. 482 and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced a companion bill, S. 103, on January 12. Both bills are titled the “Local Zoning Decisions Protection Act…
The Senate adopted a fiscal year 2017 budget resolution that includes reconciliation instructions for repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the landmark 2010 health care law. The 51-48 vote was…
HUD released Revision 3 of the Notice implementing the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD). Notice PIH 2012-32/H 2017-03 REV-3 provides instructions for implementing the RAD program. In a RADBlast…
HUD issued revised Assessment of Fair Housing (AFH) Assessment Tools for local governments and public housing agencies (PHAs) on January 13, 2017. Assessment Tools are to be used to conduct and…
HUD’s Office of Affordable Housing Programs will present the training series, “Building HOME,” through four weekly two-hour webinars on Wednesdays from 1:00-3:00 pm ET. Each will be followed by a one…
A study published in Housing Policy Debate titled “How Location Efficient is LIHTC? Measuring and Explaining State-Level Achievement” by Arlie Adkins, Andrew Sanderford, and Gary Pivo finds that…
The following are some news stories NLIHC contributed to in the last week:
“HUD Secretary-nominee Ben Carson faces the Senate,” Scotsman Guide, January 13 at: http://bit.ly/2jFZuoW
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Washington, D.C.- The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) is strongly opposed to the Local Zoning Decisions Protection Act of 2017, which seeks to eviscerate certain tools—created under the…
