NLIHC signed onto a letter with over 100 other nonprofit organizations in support of the Department of Labor’s new overtime regulation that increases the number of people eligible to earn overtime…
HUD Secretary Julián Castro announced on June 13 the release of a new toolkit aimed at eliminating lead-based paint hazards in HUD-assisted housing. The Lead-Safe Homes, Lead-Free Kids Toolkit…
The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) released guidance issuing criteria and a benchmark for local communities to use in their efforts to end chronic homelessness. The document offers…
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report concluding that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) continues to exercise lax oversight of state and local agencies that allocate tax credits…
HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) issued guidance regarding Housing Choice voucher (HCV) portability and the ability of voucher holders to rent a home anywhere there is a public housing…
A report titled New Insights into Rental Markets across the United States: Web Scraping Big Data to Analyze Craigslist by Geoff Boeing and Paul Waddell of the University of California, Berkeley, uses…
Source: Boeing, Geoff and Waddell, Paul (2016) New Insights into Rental Markets across the United States: Web Scraping Big Data to Analyze Craigslist. University of California, Berkeley. http…
Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump indicated during a meeting with Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino on June 7 that, if elected, he would rescind HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering…
California Governor Jerry Brown (D) released on May 13 the “May Revise” update to his 2016-2017 budget proposal, and it included a controversial proposal to expedite rental housing development…
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) will conduct a webinar about the “Streamlining Rule” issued in March (see Memo, 3/7). The rule revised regulations governing many federal housing programs,…
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) has created a “Beginner’s Guide to RAD Advocacy,” a four-page summary of the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD). The guide provides a short description of…
The Coalition on Human Needs will host a briefing that will include an evidence-based discussion of effective and ineffective anti-poverty programs. The discussion will include analysis of how the…
