On March 23, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Financial Services Maxine Waters (D-CA) introduced legislation to provide significant resources to end homelessness in the United States. The…
NLIHC has learned that an unfortunate provision in the Budget Control Act of 2011, the law that created the sequester, will take a 6.9% cut out of the National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF) and the…
Speaking at the Bipartisan Policy Center on February 18, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt again urged Congress to pass meaningful housing finance reform to end the uncertainty…
Congress returns from its Presidents’ Day recess on February 23. The House of Representatives will continue its debate about whether or not there will be an FY17 budget resolution and what it will…
Advocates for transportation, housing, community development, and ending homelessness are working together to urge Congress to provide the highest possible funding for the Transportation, Housing and…
On February 12, Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released her “Breaking Every Barrier Agenda,” a sweeping economic plan that includes several proposals…
The second webinar in NLIHC’s 2016 Voterization series, “Educating Voters and Candidates on Housing Issues,” will be presented on Monday, April 18 at 2:00pm ET. The presentation will provide detailed…
Mark Uh, a researcher at Trulia, finds that the homeownership rate has dropped 5% in the 50 largest metropolitan areas since the Great Recession, while the renter-occupancy rate has increased by 5%…
The National Housing Conference released their annual Housing Landscape 2016 report, which examines housing affordability trends for low to moderate income (LMI) working households. LMI working…
The FY17 budget proposed by President Barack Obama cites $182 million as the amount that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will provide for the National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF) in 2016. This is…
The annual budget prepared by the Office of Management and Budget includes a report on the estimated cost of tax expenditures for the immediate past year and ten years going forward. Federal law…
President Barack Obama delivered his FY17 budget request to Congress on February 9. The request is the first formal action toward completing FY17 appropriations bills before the October 1 start of…
