Emphasizing housing as a bipartisan issue, the North Carolina Housing Coalition (NC Housing Coalition), an NLIHC state partner, has played a lead role to reverse a decade-long trend of declining…
NLIHC will be airing a live podcast radio show to discuss the findings of this year’s Out of Reach report and the housing affordability crisis in the U.S. Listeners will have the opportunity to call-…
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) will hold a webinar focused on protecting tenants in communities where their public housing is being converted to project-based vouchers (PBV) or Section 8…
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) will conduct a webinar about HUD’s “Streamlining Rule” issued in March (see Memo, 3/7). The rule revised regulations governing many federal housing programs,…
The next NeighborWorks Training Institute (NTI) takes place August 8-12 in Detroit, MI. The NTI offers more than 100 course offerings in affordable housing development and financing, housing asset…
Most national Housing Trust Fund (HTF) state administering agencies have made significant progress in preparing their HTF Allocation Plans. The plans are required to receive their first disbursements…
House Speaker Paul Ryan (D-WI) and the Republican Task Force on Poverty, Opportunity, and Upward Mobility released on June 7 an anti-poverty agenda titled “A Better Way: Poverty, Opportunity,…
The Center for American Progress (CAP) hosted a conversation on June 7th with Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Steny Hoyer (D-MD), and Gwen Moore (D-WI) regarding policies to reduce poverty and…
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs will hold an oversight hearing titled, “Accessing USDA Rural Development Programs in Native Communities.” The Committee has not yet announced who will testify…
The Senate has agreed to negotiate with the House on the spending package that includes, among other things, the Senate’s Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD)…
NLIHC signed onto a letter with over 100 other nonprofit organizations in support of the Department of Labor’s new overtime regulation that increases the number of people eligible to earn overtime…
HUD Secretary Julián Castro announced on June 13 the release of a new toolkit aimed at eliminating lead-based paint hazards in HUD-assisted housing. The Lead-Safe Homes, Lead-Free Kids Toolkit…
