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) 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…
The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty will host a webinar on responding to the eviction crisis in the U.S., protecting renters’ rights, and preventing homelessness. The webinar will be…
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,…
NLIHC welcomes Isaac Harris as the Field Intern. Isaac is a rising junior at Pomona College in California, studying Politics and Spanish. Isaac has campaigned for campus political groups on issues…
Representative Mike Capuano (D-MA) and 31 other Democrats sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Mel Watt urging them to reassess the Obama…
Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA) introduced the “Housing for Homeless Students Act” (H.R. 5290), which would allow full-time students who are or recently have been homeless to qualify for rental…
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) will release tomorrow the House Republicans’ policy proposals for combatting poverty in America. In February, Speaker Ryan tasked House Republican leaders to develop a…
