The Senate Banking Committee approved the “Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act” (S. 2155) on December 5. The bill includes provisions that would undermine the physical…
Congress averted a government shutdown by passing a two-week stopgap funding measure on December 7. The House passed the measure, known as a continuing resolution (CR), keeping the government…
HUD provided an advanced notice of its proposed EnVision Center Demonstration on December 7. When eventually published in the Federal Register, the notice will solicit comments on a demonstration to…
HUD released The 2017 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress last week. The assessment reveals that 553,742 people were homeless in the United States on a single night in January 2017,…
Recent research from the Housing Assistance Council, Proposed Changes to the Mortgage Interest Deduction and What They Could Mean for Rural America, examines the size of mortgages and the impacts of…
A paper by researchers at Cleveland State University and the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, Who is a Nuisance? Criminal Activity Nuisance Ordinances in Ohio, finds local nuisance ordinances…
The Missouri Housing Development Commission (MHDC) voted on November 17 to end its state matching funding for the federal Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC or housing credit), as part of…
Join NLIHC and the Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC) for a webinar, “Identifying Expiring Affordable Homes with the National Housing Preservation Database,” on Tuesday,…
The National Housing Law Project will conduct a free webinar on protecting residents of USDA’s Rural Development (RD) rental housing when an owner of that housing prepays an RD loan or when the loan…
This is a watershed moment for our country – and it’s bleak.
The Senate just rushed to passage an unconscionable, unjust, and grossly irresponsible tax bill. With this vote, Republicans in Congress…
The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs voted on November 28 to recommend three nominees for HUD assistant secretary positions. The nominees are Brian Montgomery for assistant…
