Bushwick Houses
Throughout the nation, public housing is in pretty rough shape. The Public Housing Capital Fund, which Congress provides to pay for repairs, has been underfunded for so long that…
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Housing is a human right! We believe that. Sometimes we even hear our leaders say it. The United Nations has investigated the lack of housing in the U.S. as a human rights violation.…
Presidential candidates Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) and former Representative Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) have joined other Democratic presidential candidates in proposing bold plans to address the nation…
The second webinar in the Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020 webinar and podcast series “Third Thursdays at Three” will take place on Thursday, October 17 at 3:00 p.m. ET. This webinar will focus on planning…
NLIHC joined more than 100 other national groups in two letters sent on October 3 encouraging members of Congress to support the “Working Families Tax Relief Act” (H.R. 3157, S. 1138), which would…
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Representative Gregory Meeks (D-NY), and 27 other members of Congress sent a letter to the heads of the Federal Reserve, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC…
Federal judges in New York and California granted nationwide injunctions on October 11 that block implementation of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) final “public charge” rule, which was…
The House Financial Services Committee will hold a full committee hearing, “The End of Affordable Housing? A Review of the Trump Administration’s Plans to Change Housing Finance in America.” The…
In a joint letter to the Puerto Rico Department of Housing, the House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Representative Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), and…
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development, and Related Agencies will hold an oversight hearing, “The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s…
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 10/07…
