September is NLIHC Membership Month - Join the Movement to End Homelessness and Housing Poverty Today!
We are halfway into NLIHC’s annual Membership Month, and more than 50 new members have already committed to Join the Movement to end homelessness and housing poverty in America! Thank you to all our…
September 16, 2019Stable, Affordable Homes are Critical For Baby and Toddler Development
The Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector affordable homes campaign published a new blog on September 12 written by Mollyrose Schaffner, policy writer and editor for ZERO TO THREE. ZERO TO THREE,…
September 16, 2019Fact of the Week: Majority of U.S. Mayors of Both Parties Believe Housing-Price Reductions Would Not be Good for their Cities
Source: Einstein, K., Glick, D., Palmer, M., Fox, S. (2019). Menino Survey of Mayors: 2018 Results.
February 4, 2019Fact of the Week: Racial and Ethnic Minorities Make Up Majority of Extremely Low-Income Severely Housing Cost-Burdened Renters
Source: NLIHC tabulations of 2017 ACS PUMS data. NLIHC’s The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes Extremely Low-Income (ELI): At or below the poverty line or 30% of area median income (AMI); Very…
April 15, 2019Fact of the Week: Expansion of Housing Vouchers Would Have Greatest Impact on Reducing Child Poverty Among Eight Possible Interventions
The proposals’ combined impact is a 57.1% reduction in the supplemental child poverty rate, less than the sum of the individual policy changes because the same child can benefit from more than one…
May 10, 2019Fact of the Week: U.S. Spends Far Less on Housing Assistance as a Percent of GDP than other Developed Countries
OECD: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
May 20, 2019Fact of the Week: Seven of the Ten Occupations Projected to Grow the Most Do Not Pay Enough to Cover the Rent
Source: NLIHC’s Out of Reach 2019. Housing Wages based on HUD fair market rents. Employment projections from BLS Employment Projections Program. Occupational wages from May 2018 Occupational…
June 17, 2019Fact of the Week: Costs of Major Weather and Climate Events Has Grown Dramatically in Last Four Decades
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. (2019). U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters
June 24, 2019Fact of the Week: High-Growth Metro Areas Experience Greatest Share of Loss of Multifamily Rentals Affordable to Very Low-Income Households
Source: Freddie Mac Multifamily Research Center 2019.
July 15, 2019