In a lawsuit filed in federal court, Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition (DHRC) member Texas RioGrande Legal Aid and three low-income renters of color allege that the decision by HUD and the Texas…
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development held a hearing on October 17 to address ongoing concerns with HUD’s refusal to provide Community Development…
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management will hold a hearing, “An Assessment of Federal Recovery Efforts from…
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 10/14…
HUD held a webinar on October 10 on the key provisions of the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program that most affect public housing residents. After a brief background of “Why RAD” and RAD’s…
HUD's Office of Multifamily Housing (MFH) announced the launch of three webpages to support owners of private, HUD-assisted multifamily housing and related stakeholders (e.g., residents). The…
The Trump Administration is expected to reopen the public comment period on a proposed rule to end broad-based categorical eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) after…
Housing segregation is often cited as a root cause for educational achievement disparities between white and black students. A study by David Card and Jesse Rothstein, “Racial Segregation and…
The Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University released “Housing America’s Older Adults 2019,” a supplement to its State of the Nation’s Housing 2019 report. The supplement describes the…
Housing advocates in California are celebrating a strong legislative session that provided billions of dollars in new funding for housing programs and a new ban on source-of-income discrimination,…
NLIHC and the Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC) will co-host the first of two webinars on the preservation of affordable housing tomorrow, October 22 at 2:00 p.m. ET. As…
