NLIHC conducted a webinar for affordable housing advocates on July 31 about engaging voters and candidates in the upcoming elections on the issue of affordable housing as part of its…
During last week’s second round of Democratic debates, several presidential candidates talked about affordable housing solutions for the first time ever in a presidential debate.…
NLIHC’s partner on Our Homes, Our Votes 2020 the Polk Country Housing Trust Fund and our Our Homes, Our Votes, Our Iowa project partnered with Habitat for Humanity on two “Women…
HUD is proposing drastic changes to the fair housing Disparate Impact rule that would make it far more difficult for people experiencing various forms of discrimination to challenge the practices of…
HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) issued Notice PIH 2019-20 announcing the Foster Youth to Independence (FYI) initiative. Depending on voucher availability, HUD will provide Tenant…
The House Committee on Financial Services will hold a field hearing, “Examining the Homelessness Crisis in Los Angeles,” on August 14 at 10:00 a.m. PT (1:00 p.m. ET) in Los Angeles, CA. Find…
The following is a review of additional disaster housing recovery developments since the last edition of Memo to Members and Partners (for the article in the previous Memo, see 7/…
It is critical for advocates to engage directly with policymakers to urge them to take action to address the issues of housing affordability and homelessness – and there is no better time to do so…
The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies published a report, A Home Builder Perspective on Housing Affordability and Construction Innovation, that finds both single-family and multifamily…
Monarch Housing Associates, with the support of the Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey (the Network), an NLIHC state partner, and 35 other partner organizations, held its annual…
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed the state budget on July 1, including a historic investment in the state’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund (AHTF). For the first time in nearly a decade, the…
The U.S. Department of Education released its Early Childhood Homelessness State Profiles for 2019. In 2016-2017, more than 1.3 million children under six years old, or one in 18 young children,…
