The second Tenant Talk issue of 2011 focuses on housing issues created by natural disaster, how to find legal assistance, and what residents and tenants can do to help save the National Housing Trust…
In many ways 2015 was a significant year for NLIHC's policy agenda, even with a Congress generally characterized as “do-nothing.” As the country begins a presidential election year and extreme…
HUD updated its National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on December 30, 2015 to clarify that NHTF money may be used for installing broadband infrastructure. On the same…
The Congressional Budget Office has released a set of infographics on FY15 spending and revenues and revenue and spending trends since FY95. The graphics show breakouts of the $3.7 trillion in…
The National Housing Law Project has produced a 13-page overview of the FY16 HUD funding bill, primarily focusing on provisions related to the preservation of multifamily assisted housing. The…
On December 31, HUD issued the final version of the Assessment Tool that local governments must use to submit an Assessment of Fair Housing (AFH) under the new Affirmatively Further Fair Housing (…
In December, HUD announced that the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) reached its 185,000 unit limit. HUD’s most recent Rental Assistance Demonstration newsletter in December provides an…
HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing has published a toolkit to help community leaders encourage owners and managers of HUD-assisted private multifamily housing to develop and implement admission…
HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research will hold a symposium exploring how HUD policies have evolved over its 50-year history. Topics will include HUD's treatment of race and poverty; the…
HUD’s Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs (SNAPS) is conducting six identical webinars in January to ensure that all stakeholders understand the new definition of chronically homeless and the…
On January 6, the White House hosted a convening on HUD’s proposed smoke-free public housing rule (see Memo, 11/16/15). HUD Secretary Julián Castro and United States Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy…
