The following is a review of additional housing recovery developments related to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, and the California wildfires since last week’s Memo to Members and Partners…
The Senate Banking Committee approved the “Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act” (S. 2155) on December 5. The bill includes provisions that would undermine the physical…
Congress averted a government shutdown by passing a two-week stopgap funding measure on December 7. The House passed the measure, known as a continuing resolution (CR), keeping the government…
HUD provided an advanced notice of its proposed EnVision Center Demonstration on December 7. When eventually published in the Federal Register, the notice will solicit comments on a demonstration to…
Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett appointed Curtis Anderson as chief of staff for USDA Rural Development’s Rural Housing Service (RHS) on December 4. Mr. Anderson…
HUD released The 2017 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress last week. The assessment reveals that 553,742 people were homeless in the United States on a single night in January 2017,…
Recent research from the Housing Assistance Council, Proposed Changes to the Mortgage Interest Deduction and What They Could Mean for Rural America, examines the size of mortgages and the impacts of…
A paper by researchers at Cleveland State University and the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, Who is a Nuisance? Criminal Activity Nuisance Ordinances in Ohio, finds local nuisance ordinances…
The Missouri Housing Development Commission (MHDC) voted on November 17 to end its state matching funding for the federal Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC or housing credit), as part of…
Join NLIHC and the Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC) for a webinar, “Identifying Expiring Affordable Homes with the National Housing Preservation Database,” on Tuesday,…
The National Housing Law Project will conduct a free webinar on protecting residents of USDA’s Rural Development (RD) rental housing when an owner of that housing prepays an RD loan or when the loan…
