The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) met in December to review the nation’s progress toward ending family homelessness and to recommend new strategies to achieve the goals set forth…
On November 18, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced the largest commitment to supportive housing creation in the city’s history, promising to create 15,000 units over the next 15 years.…
A study published in the recent issue of Housing Policy Debate titled “Development of an Index of Subsidized Housing Availability and its Relationship to Housing Insecurity,” provides evidence that…
Nonprofit VOTE will hold a webinar on Thursday, January 21 at 2pm ET entitled Plan Ahead 2016. The webinar cover best practices for planning and conducting voter registration, voter education,…
The February 5 nomination deadline for NLIHC’s Annual Organizing Award is quickly approaching. Please nominate an outstanding local or statewide organizing effort. The 2016 Organizing Award…
Kate Rodrigues joins NLIHC as a new research intern for the spring semester. Originally from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and with a B.A. in English and Political Science from the College of Saint…
The House Committee on Appropriations approved its FY17 THUD spending bill by a voice vote today. As we reported last week, the bill would:
Increase funding for homeless assistance programs;…
Senate
After days of debate, the Senate passed yesterday a spending package that included the THUD appropriations bill by a vote of 89 to 9.
NLIHC supported passage of the bill since it includes no…
