Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States on Friday, January 20. Hundreds of thousands of people attended the inauguration and protests over the weekend. Nearly 70…
Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) circulated a Dear Colleague letter last week urging the House Ways and Means Committee to use tax reform as an opportunity to end homelessness and housing poverty…
Nominations for the 2017 NLIHC Annual Organizing Award are due 5 pm ET, Wednesday, February 1! The Organizing Award recognizes outstanding achievement during 2016 in state, local and/or resident…
President Trump last week selected Sonny Perdue, governor of Georgia from 2003 to 2011, to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which oversees several Rural Housing programs. Although Mr.…
HUD posted interim guidance for states and insular areas regarding their statutory obligation to affirmatively furthering fair housing (AFFH). Interim guidance is needed because the AFFH Assessment…
HUD published an extensive notice in the Federal Register on January 18 that implements many provisions of the “Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act of 2016” (HOTMA) that pertain to the…
HUD published a Federal Register notice extending the previously established terms and conditions by which HUD will approve a request for the transfer of project-based rental assistance, debt held or…
A paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta titled “Corporate Landlords, Institutional Investors, and Displacement: Eviction Rates in Single-Family Rentals” finds that large corporate…
President Trump’s nominee to lead the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, faced heated questions in his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee. Ranking Member Senator…
HUD’s Office of Pubic and Indian Housing issued a preview of Notice PIH 2017-1 requesting public housing agencies (PHAs) to apply for participation in the first group of the newly expanded Moving to…
In the wake of November 2016 crippling fires in Gatlinburg, TN, the Tennessee Valley Coalition to End Homelessness (TVCH), an NLIHC member, has been organizing local efforts to support and house…
