A working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Is It Who You Are or Where You Live? Residential Segregation and Racial Gaps in Childhood Asthma, indicates that residential neighborhoods…
Housing Action Illinois, an NLIHC state partner, turns 30 this year. In commemoration of three decades of outstanding organizing and advocacy for affordable housing, staff from Housing Action…
NLIHC has updated and streamlined its national Housing Trust Fund (HTF) website. In particular, the “HTF State Allocation Plan” section currently has the 2016 HUD-approved HTF Allocation Plans for…
Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. (2017). Worst Case Housing Needs:
2017 Report to Congress. Washington, DC: Author. Retrieved from: http://bit.ly/2ftHf9t
The Urban Institute released a guidebook to help community organizations use data to improve fair housing and access to opportunity. “Using Data to Assess Fair Housing and Improve Access to…
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) posted updated, interactive state fact sheets about the Housing Choice Voucher program for each state and the District of Columbia. The fact sheets…
A blog post in HealthAffairs by Emily Benfer, a senior fellow and distinguished visiting scholar at the Yale Law School, describes the extent to which minority children are disproportionately…
NLIHC is accepting applications for internship positions for the fall 2017 semester. Interns are highly valued and fully integrated into our staff work. We seek students passionate about social…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking/presenting at the following events in the coming months:
NeighborWorks Training Institute in Philadelphia, PA, August…
Amazon Smile is a simple and automatic way for you to support NLIHC and our mission to ensure that the lowest income households in America have access to affordable and decent homes. With every…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the weeks of July 30 and August 6:
“The Cities Where Rent Hikes Leave the Most People Homeless,” Bloomberg, August 3 at…
Washington, D.C. – The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published on August 9 its Worst Case Housing Needs: 2017 Report to Congress, showing that 8.3 million unassisted very low…