President Donald Trump’s FY19 budget request released on February 12 proposes drastic cuts to housing benefits that help millions of low income seniors, people with disabilities, families…
Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) on February 8 sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to include “unprecedented” funding for affordable housing in his FY19 budget request, which is set to be…
Thirty-eight Democrats in the House of Representatives sent a letter on February 5 asking HUD Secretary Ben Carson to provide more information on the agency’s recent decision to effectively suspend…
The NLIHC 2018 Housing Policy Forum: Building the Movement, March 19-21 in Washington DC, will feature a session during which former congressional staffers from both sides of the political aisle will…
Nearly 1300 organizations signed onto a letter to Congress urging increased funding to the national Housing Trust Fund (HTF) to at least $3.5 billion annually through comprehensive housing finance…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months:
CHAPA Federal Forum On Affordable Housing & Community Development,…
Advocates in Alaska are celebrating the creation of a new state office devoted exclusively to developing and supporting solutions to homelessness. The State Homeless Housing Office, launched on…
A report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Employment and Earnings for Households Receiving Federal Rental Assistance, shows that 89% of HUD-assisted households are seniors or disabled,…
A study by Jerry Anthony, “Economic Prosperity and Housing Affordability in the United States: Lessons from the Booming 1990s,” published in Housing Policy Debate explores whether economic growth…
Congress approved a bipartisan budget agreement, the “Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018,” in the early morning of February 9, after a brief government shutdown, and the president signed it into law.…
Returning prisoners face numerous challenges when returning to their communities, and access to housing is one of the largest obstacles. Subsidized housing programs can often have very restrictive…
By Brian Collins
WASHINGTON — Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said housing advocates should not worry about proposed funding cuts, arguing that they will be made up for as part of…
