The Bipartisan Policy Center hosted a panel discussion on August 8 titled “Follow the Evidence: The Promise and Potential for a Different Approach to Policymaking.” The event, featuring Office of…
The next NeighborWorks Training Institute (NTI) takes place December 12-16, 2016 in Washington, DC. The NTI offers more than 100 courses in affordable housing development and financing, housing…
Like many of you, my home is the center of my family. It’s where my husband and I are raising our two boys – where we play and study, read books and sign songs, where we sit around the dinner table…
At a September 1 public roundtable discussion in Burlington, VT, hosted by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), HUD Secretary Julián Castro announced that Vermont was the second state to have its national…
Congress remains at an impasse over how to fund the federal government for the new fiscal year that begins on October 1, creating the possibility of a government shutdown. Congress has failed to…
The House Judiciary Committee voted to approve several criminal justice reform bills earlier this year. Despite bipartisan support for the bills, House leadership did not include criminal justice…
The National Alliance to End Homelessness will host a webinar titled “Reentry Services 101: What Homeless Service Providers Need to Know” on Wednesday, September 14, 2-3:30 pm ET.
People returning…
A study by the California Budget & Policy Center titled Spending through California’s Tax Code finds that the state’s tax expenditures disproportionately benefit higher income homeowners. The tax…
A paper by the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University titled Rental Housing: An International Comparison finds that of 12 advanced countries the United States has the greatest share…
Source: Carliner, M., Marya, E. (2016). Rental housing: An international comparison. Cambridge, MA: Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.
It is likely that fewer than half of voting-eligible renters will vote in the 2016 election. The presidential elections of 2008 and 2012 were considered to have had high-turnout rates, with 62% and…
Thousands of low income Louisiana residents face extreme challenges as they look to recover from the mid-August floods that damaged or destroyed more than 150,000 homes across 20 parishes. As the…
