Nearly 1300 organizations signed onto a letter to Congress urging increased funding to the national Housing Trust Fund (HTF) to at least $3.5 billion annually through comprehensive housing finance…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months:
CHAPA Federal Forum On Affordable Housing & Community Development,…
Advocates in Alaska are celebrating the creation of a new state office devoted exclusively to developing and supporting solutions to homelessness. The State Homeless Housing Office, launched on…
A report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Employment and Earnings for Households Receiving Federal Rental Assistance, shows that 89% of HUD-assisted households are seniors or disabled,…
A study by Jerry Anthony, “Economic Prosperity and Housing Affordability in the United States: Lessons from the Booming 1990s,” published in Housing Policy Debate explores whether economic growth…
Congress approved a bipartisan budget agreement, the “Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018,” in the early morning of February 9, after a brief government shutdown, and the president signed it into law.…
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…
Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-USVI), members of the House Oversight Committee, sent a letter urging Committee Chair Trey Gowdy (R-SC) to subpoena…
Last week, HUD published the long-awaited Federal Register notice that provides direction to Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands pertaining to their allocations of the $7.4 billion…
Prior to the passage of a disaster relief package on February 9, more than 340 national, state, and local members of the Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition (DHRC) issued a letter to…
Congress passed on February 9 a disaster relief package signed into law by President Trump as part of a larger budget bill that lifted the Budget Control Act spending caps on defense and domestic…
GENERAL UPDATES
Third Supplemental Request from Administration Anticipated. The Trump administration is expected to send to Congress its third supplemental funding request for disaster aid this…
