Representatives Annie Kuster (D-NH) and Rick Nolan (D-MN) introduced the “Rural Housing Preservation Act” (H.R. 4908) on April 12. The purpose of the bill is to ensure that thousands of families…
Fourteen members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Mel Watt on April 14 urging FHFA to provide debt relief to long-standing…
Last week, HUD sent to Congress its plan to implement a demonstration program for energy and water conservation improvements in certain HUD properties. The pilot program, enacted in December, 2015,…
HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) issued Notice PIH 2016-06 on April 7, providing guidance to public housing agencies (PHAs) regarding their administration of resident self-…
HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) issued Notice PIH 2016-05 on April 7 that provides implementation guidance related to public housing and vouchers provisions in the March 8, 2016 final…
The 2016 issue of the National Alliance to End Homelessness’s (NAEH) annual report The State of Homelessness in America shows that on a single night in January 2015, 564,708 people in the U.S. were…
(in millions)
Source: National Alliance to End Homelessness (2016). The State of Homelessness in America. Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/1UZ0mpd
NLIHC joined New York City Council members Ritchie Torres, Jumaane Williams, and Brad Lander in urging presidential candidates to visit New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) public housing…
The second webinar in NLIHC’s 2016 Voterization series, “Educating Voters and Candidates on Housing Issues,” will be held on Monday, April 18 at 2:00pm ET. The webinar will provide detailed…
Chrishelle Palay, co-director of the Houston office of the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service (TxLIHIS), an NLIHC state partner, spoke to a crowd of residents of Houston’s affluent…
The National Housing Law Project is offering webinars providing an overview of the new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulations, an update on the rule’s implementation, and…
Thought-leaders from across the affordable housing movement will explore the challenge of keeping affordable housing sustainable at the Consortium for Housing and Asset Management (CHAM) annual…
