Members of Congress – representing districts and states across the country – participated in the “Our Homes, Our Voices” National Housing Week of Action activities, calling for increased investments…
Despite the difficult budget climate on Capitol Hill, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a FY18 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) spending bill that increases funding for…
Prosperity Now (formerly CFED) released its 2017 Scorecard on financial well-being, On Track or Left Behind: Findings from the 2017 Prosperity Now Scorecard. While unemployment declined in 2016 to 4.…
The Atlanta City Council unanimously approved an ordinance on July 18 to address homelessness over the next three years. Invest Atlanta, the city’s economic development authority, will issue a $26…
A campaign is underway to contact members of Congress and tell them to fully fund rural housing programs and to protect them from the cuts being proposed by the Trump administration and Congress.…
The HTF is the first new housing resource in a generation exclusively targeted to help build and preserve housing affordable to people with the lowest incomes, including those who are homeless. Join…
The J. Ronald Terwilliger Foundation for Housing America’s Families has published a report, “How Federal Dollars are Spent: The Case for New Priorities,” calling for reforms to the mortgage interest…
Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) introduced a bill on July 19 that would allow residents living in manufactured home communities to enjoy more stability without the threat of eviction. The Senate…
The Senate will begin its work on its Transportation-HUD (THUD) spending bill this week. The Senate THUD Appropriations Subcommittee is scheduled to debate its FY18 spending bill on Tuesday, July 25…
The House Appropriations Committee moved forward with its FY18 spending bill for affordable housing and community development programs on July 17. NLIHC and others estimate the bill would result in…
The full Senate Appropriations Committee voted to approve its draft FY18 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) spending bill, including funding for Rural Housing programs, on July 20. While the text…
HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) published a notice in the Federal Register on July 14 making technical corrections to a notice published on January 18 (see Memo, 1/23) that…
