NLIHC is pleased to welcome four new interns for fall.Isabella Blanchard and Shira Steinberg join NLIHC as fall outreach interns. A native of Essex, Vermont, Isabella is currently in her freshman…
Senate Considers THUD Bill and Amendments
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The Senate Committee on Appropriations passed its FY17…
After a controversial amendment threatened to derail the Senate from passing appropriations bills (See Memo 5/2), senators were able to come to a deal, relieving the legislative logjam that delayed…
The Senate Committee on Finance held a hearing to examine the role of outcomes and evidence-based standards in informing social policies and to explore how to apply them more effectively to program…
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance compared the affordable housing models of the United States and the United Kingdom during a hearing on May 12. Both countries have…
HUD has published an FAQ describing the national Housing Trust Fund’s (HTF’s) maximum per-unit development subsidy requirement. The HTF regulation [24 CFR 93.300(a)] requires grantees (states) to…
Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) urged reform of the mortgage interest deduction (MID) and described his “Common Sense Housing Investment Act” (H.R. 1662) during a House Ways and Means Tax Policy…
New York University’s Furman Center released its annual report, The State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods in 2015. This year’s report analyzes the effects of gentrification in the city;…
A report released by the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development and the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement titled Asian American & Pacific Islander Anti-…
HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) published a proposed rule to revise the Native American and Native Hawaiian programs by incorporating an existing fair housing rule, the Equal Access…
NLIHC submitted comments regarding HUD’s proposed Assessment Tool to be used by states to create an Assessment of Fair Housing (AFH) to comply with the new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH…
Source: Austensten, M. et al. (2016). State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods in 2015. New York, NY: NYU Furman Center. http://bit.ly/1TFCj8v
