The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) has updated its legal overview of the impact of the partial federal government shutdown on residents in key HUD and USDA Rural Development (RD) assisted…
The Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector affordable homes campaign hosted a congressional briefing on January 24 with over 110 Capitol Hill staffers and advocates to unveil the release…
The needs of rural and Native American tribal areas can often be overlooked in conversations about affordable housing, but the need in these places is no less severe. In fact, in many cases it is far…
Join NLIHC in recognizing 2019 Housing Leadership Award honoree Representative Emanuel Cleaver, who will receive the 2019 Edward Brooke Housing Leadership Award for his years of leadership in…
The following is a review of disaster housing recovery developments since the last edition of Memo to Members and Partners (for the article in the previous Memo, see 1/22). NLIHC also…
A study by the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, Fair Housing Testing Project for the Chicago Commission on Human Relations, tested for source-of-income and racial discrimination in six…
Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther proposed on January 14 that $50 million out of a $1.03 billion bond package be devoted to affordable housing. Columbus residents will vote on the bond proposal on May 7…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of January 20.
“‘It’s like the real-life Hunger Games in America:’ Shutdown threatens HUD’s protections for…
January 28 is the pre-event registration deadline for the NeighborWorks Training Institute (NTI) being held in Cleveland, OH, February 18-22. The NTI is a premier provider of affordable housing…
NLIHC is pleased to welcome Brooke Schipporeit to its field team as its newest housing advocacy organizer. Brooke comes to NLIHC from Nebraska by way of Philadelphia, PA, where she spent the…
NLIHC is accepting applications for its field internship position for the winter/spring 2019 semester. The NLHC field intern assists our Field team in creating email campaigns focused on important…
