Vermont Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO) recently released a digital version of its “Illustrated Guide to Vermont Renters’ Rights.” The guide includes visually-appealing images…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months:
2018 Illinois Governor’s Conference on Affordable Housing, Chicago, IL –…
NLIHC and 75 civil rights, faith-based, affordable housing, and other organizations issued a statement on January 5 voicing strong opposition to HUD’s sudden and short-sighted decision to effectively…
HUD published a notice in the Federal Register on January 5 suspending most local governments’ obligation under the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule to submit an Assessment of Fair…
HUD’s Regulatory Task Force, formed in response to Executive Order (EO) 13777 (see Memo, 3/6/17), decided to withdraw five proposed rules, publishing the withdrawal in the Federal Register on…
A study from Urban Institute, The Relationship between Housing and Asthma among School-Age Children, explores connections between housing and childhood asthma using data from the 2015 American…
Metro Housing|Boston (Metro Housing), an NLIHC member, released its FY17 RAFT in Review report analyzing the Massachusetts statewide Residential Assistance for Families in Transition (RAFT) program,…
The House Appropriations Committee released on December 13 the details on a stopgap funding measure, known as a continuing resolution (CR), which would fund the government at FY17 levels through…
The House Financial Services Committee passed 13 bills on December 13, including H.R. 4560, the “GSE Jumpstart Reauthorization Act of 2017.” H.R. 4560 would require Federal Housing Finance…
After more than a decade of campaigning, housing advocates in Washington are celebrating the passage of legislation to ban discrimination against Housing Choice Voucher holders. Renters who use…
The Oregon legislature got a lot done in a very short legislative session to address the state’s shortage of affordable homes. Advocates are celebrating a number of wins this year, the most…
The National Housing Law Project and the Poverty & Race Research Action Council have prepared a brief paper summarizing key issues for advocates to address with their public housing agencies (…
