When Governor Mark Dayton (D) signed Minnesota’s state budget on May 23, support for housing and homeless programs increased by $33 million, up 36% from the prior biennium budget. This victory…
NLIHC has contributed commentary on its annual Out of Reach report to the Urban Institute’s MetroTrends website for the fourth year in a row. The commentary also features interactive graphics that…
NLIHC’s Policy Fact Sheets have been updated for March. Fact sheets provide the latest summaries of a variety of issues, including those on appropriations, the National Housing Trust Fund, vouchers,…
Welcome to these new members who joined in May 2013:Amy Clark, Washington, DCWillette Coleman, Silver Spring, MDLucille Cornelius, Pine Ridge, SDRosemarie Dillingham, Pine Ridge, SDMichael Her Many…
Chris White joined NLIHC on June 3 as the new communications associate. Chris previously worked as communications associate for Search for Common Ground, an international nonprofit dedicated to…
Katie Sullivan joins the National Low Income Housing Coalition as a summer research intern. A native of the Chicago area, she is a recent graduate of Washington University in St. Louis where she…
Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) was added as the ninth co-sponsor to the Common Sense Housing Investment Act (H.R. 1213) on June 3. Mr. Jeffries is the third member of the New York delegation…
The Congressional Budget Office has published a report in which it examines ten major tax expenditures that benefit individual taxpayers and how these tax provisions are distributed among income…
Congress returns to Washington, DC after the Memorial Day recess with little hope of addressing the effects of sequestration on low income people. Some Members of Congress have introduced…
The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs will hold a hearing on June 5, “State of the American Dream: Economic Policy and the Future of the Middle Class.” The hearing will be held…
House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) and Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced the Half-in-Ten Act of 2013, H.R. 2182, on May 23. The bill would set up a working group, the Federal…
