From the Field: Los Angeles City Council Takes Key Step Forward on Providing...
The Los Angeles City Council took a major step forward on August 17 in creating a “right to counsel” for tenants facing eviction. A motion instructing the city’s housing department to develop...
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Fact of the Week: Landlords Deny Housing Choice Vouchers at High Rates,...
Source: Urban Institute. (2018). A Pilot Study of Landlord Acceptance of Housing Choice Vouchers: Executive Summary.
View ArticleResearchers Find High Denial Rates of Housing Vouchers by Landlords
A study conducted by the Urban Institute, A Pilot Study of Landlord Acceptance of Housing Choice Vouchers, finds high denial rates of Housing Choice Vouchers by landlords, particularly in markets where...
View ArticleHUD Posts List of Rental Assistance Demonstration Applications Under Review
HUD has posted a new list of Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) applications under review or pending. HUD will no longer publish the RAD Waitlist because 455,000 public housing units may now be...
View ArticleAvailable now! Watch Opportunity Starts at Home Introductory Webinar:...
The Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector affordable housing campaign hosted its first webinar titled “Broadening the Housing Movement: Learn more about the Opportunity Starts at Home Campaign” on...
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Our Homes, Our Votes Webinar Recordings and Slides Now Available!
The six part Our Homes, Our Votes webinar series on non-partisan voter engagement concluded on August 21, and recordings and PowerPoint slides for each webinar are now available on the Our Homes, Our...
View ArticleSenate Committee Examines Overcrowding in Tribal Areas
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee held a field hearing on August 25 discussing “Overcrowded Housing and the Impacts on American Indian and Alaska Natives.” The hearing, held in Savoonga, AK, included...
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Senator Wyden Introduces Misguided and Wasteful Middle Income Housing Tax...
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced a bill (S. 3365) to create a Middle Income Housing Tax Credit (MIHTC) for properties where at least 60% of homes are occupied by households with incomes at or below...
View ArticleNLIHC, Partners and Eight Senators Submit Disparate Impact Comment Letters
In response to an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (see Memo, 5/14 and 6/25), NLIHC, eight Democratic senators, and other fair housing advocates submitted separate comment letters regarding HUD’s...
View ArticleAdditional Disaster Housing Recovery Updates – August 27
The following is a review of housing recovery developments related to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, and the 2017 California wildfires since last week’s Memo to Members and Partners (for the...
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NLIHC and DHRC Mark One-Year Anniversary of 2017 Hurricanes, Commit to...
August 25 marked the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Harvey making landfall in Texas, the first of three major hurricanes to hit in rapid succession in 2017, impacting Texas, Florida, the U.S. Virgin...
View ArticleDisaster Housing Recovery Update, Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Federal ResponseCongressCongressional representatives Jenniffer González (R-PR-At Large) and Nydia Velázquez (D-NY-7) are cosponsoring a panel discussion with the Youth Development Institute of Puerto...
View ArticleNLIHC's Response to Court Ruling Allowing FEMA to Move Forward on Evicting...
Washington, DC - The Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition (DHRC) of more than 700 local, state, and national organizations is disappointed by the U.S. federal district court’s denial of a request for a...
View ArticleHUD Publishes FY19 Fair Market Rents
HUD announced in the August 31 Federal Register the publication of FY19 Fair Market Rents (FMRs). FMRs are used to determine payment standards for the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program, initial...
View ArticleIllinois Senators Ask HUD to Address Local Public Housing Concerns
Illinois Democratic U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin sent a letter asking HUD Secretary Ben Carson to report on his agency’s plan to address the serious problems at public housing...
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Countdown to the Election: Build a Voter Engagement Plan
The 2018 midterm elections take place on November 6, 2018. That's just 62 days from now. Are you ready? Our Homes, Our Votes, NLIHC’s project on nonpartisan voter engagement, has tools and resources...
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Take Action! Send a Letter to Congress to Support Bipartisan Housing Task Force
On August 27, the Opportunity Starts at Home campaign issued its first Call to Action about a specific piece of legislation. The campaign calls on advocates to urge Congress to support the “Task Force...
View ArticleAdditional Disaster Housing Recovery Updates – September 4
The following is a review of housing recovery developments related to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, and the 2017 California wildfires since last week’s Memo to Members and Partners (for the...
View ArticlePanel Discussion on the Condition of Puerto Rican Children after Hurricane...
Representatives Jenniffer González Colón (R-PR) and Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) are co-sponsoring a panel discussion with the Youth Development Institute of Puerto Rico on the condition of Puerto Rico...
View ArticleJudge Rules Against Preliminary Injunction on Termination of FEMA’s Temporary...
A U.S. District Court judge for the District of Massachusetts ruled against a preliminary injunction seeking to overturn the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) decision to end its Temporary...
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