The Utah Housing Coalition, an NLIHC state partner, hosted “Youth Day on the Hill” on Wednesday, December 12. The event focused on teaching youth basic advocacy skills and the importance of using…
The following is a review of additional housing recovery developments related to the 2017 and 2018 disasters since the last edition of Memo to Members and Partners (for the article in the…
A report from Zillow Research, Homelessness Rises More Quickly Where Rent Exceeds a Third of Income, examines the relationship between rent affordability and homelessness. The report finds that…
The NLIHC-led Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition (DHRC) submitted comments on California’s draft State Action Plan for Disaster Recovery. The plan describes how the state intends to spend $124…
The HUD Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a report on the top management challenges facing HUD in 2019, identifying six specific issues which, according to the report, “impact HUD’s ability to…
President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order on December 12 establishing the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council, to be chaired by HUD Secretary Ben Carson. The primary purpose of…
Researchers at Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan released in November a new study, Missing School, Missing Home: the Link between Chronic Absenteeism, Economic Instability, and…
Join NLIHC in recognizing 2019 Housing Leadership Award honoree Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO). Representative Cleaver will receive the 2019 Edward W. Brooke Housing Leadership Award for…
The deadline for submitting nominations for the 2019 NLIHC Housing Organizing Awards is Friday, January 11, 2019. The awards recognize outstanding achievement during 2018 in statewide, regional,…
Congress passed an $867 billion farm bill, after a proposal that would have made cuts and placed stronger work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP or food stamps)…
President Donald Trump announced on December 11 his intention to nominate Mark Calabria, chief economist to Vice President Mike Pence, to be the new director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (…
