NLIHC and several partner organizations are launching a social media campaign during the week of April 24-30—which the Department of Justice has designated “National Reentry Week”—to raise awareness…
Matthew Desmond, Harvard University professor and author of the best-selling book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, will participate in a Twitter chat co-hosted by NLIHC, the…
The Senate Committee on Appropriations passed its FY17 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) funding bill on April 21 by a vote of 30 to 0. The bill can now go to…
HUD has posted the 2016 homeownership value limits (the “95% limits”) for the National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF) and HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) programs.
According to the NHTF statute, a…
Despite not having a budget resolution setting a topline spending amount for FY17, the Senate Appropriations Committee has moved ahead and released funding allocations for each of the 12…
The House is at a stalemate in advancing its proposed budget resolution that was approved by the Budget Committee last month on a party line vote. The budget resolution faces opposition on both sides…
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration approved its FY17 spending bill on April 13. The bill would increase funding for the U.S.…
The House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee held a hearing on April 14 titled “The Failure of Trickle Down Economics in the War on Poverty.,” Witnesses spoke about families struggling to make…
Representatives Annie Kuster (D-NH) and Rick Nolan (D-MN) introduced the “Rural Housing Preservation Act” (H.R. 4908) on April 12. The purpose of the bill is to ensure that thousands of families…
Fourteen members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Mel Watt on April 14 urging FHFA to provide debt relief to long-standing…
Last week, HUD sent to Congress its plan to implement a demonstration program for energy and water conservation improvements in certain HUD properties. The pilot program, enacted in December, 2015,…
Chrishelle Palay, co-director of the Houston office of the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service (TxLIHIS), an NLIHC state partner, spoke to a crowd of residents of Houston’s affluent…
