Report Analyzes Evictions and Their Impacts on Low Income People in Seattle
A report by the Seattle Women’s Commission and the Housing Justice Project of the King County Bar Association, Losing Home: The Human Cost of Eviction in Seattle, investigates the policies,...
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You Don’t Need A Home to Vote!
Voter registration deadlines are just around the corner. Each state has a unique deadline, but in most states those deadlines are approaching fast. Advocates can play an important role in helping...
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Housing Policy is School Policy: The Case of Montgomery County, MD
A study conducted in Montgomery County, MD, demonstrates that economically inclusive housing policies can dramatically lift the academic performance of low income students and narrow the achievement...
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NLIHC Membership Month Comes to a Close
As our annual membership month comes to a close, NLIHC would like to extend our thanks to the more than 160 individuals and organization that became new members or renewed their memberships and to...
View ArticleAdditional 2017 Disaster Housing Recovery Updates – October 1, 2018
The following is a review of additional housing recovery developments related to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, and the 2017 California wildfires since last week’s Memo to Members and Partners...
View ArticleHurricane Florence Housing Recovery Updates – October 1, 2018
he following is a review of housing recovery developments related to Hurricane Florence since last week’s Memo to Members and Partners (for the article in last week’s Memo, see 9/24). NLIHC also posts...
View ArticleHouse Passes Supplemental Disaster Spending Bill in Response to Hurricane...
The House passed a recovery package of $1.68 billion in Community Development Block Grant–Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funding to help with recovery efforts for Hurricane Florence. This money is...
View ArticleNLIHC Provides Sample Letter for Commenting on HUD Request for Input on...
HUD published in the Federal Register on August 16, “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing: Streamlining and Enhancements,” an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) inviting public comment on...
View ArticleAdvocates Ask Court to Set Aside its AFFH Decision and Consider Additional...
The three organizations that sued HUD over indefinitely suspending implementation of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulation (see Memo, 5/14) filed a motion asking the Court to set...
View ArticleCongress Passes Stopgap Funding for HUD and Department of Agriculture
Congress failed to pass a four-bill spending package (“minibus”) that included the FY19 Transportation-HUD (THUD) and Agriculture spending bills, instead passing a stopgap funding measure running...
View ArticleHouse Passes Opioid Legislation that Includes Housing Pilot Program to Assist...
The House passed on September 28 a package of opioid legislation (H.R. 6) that includes a new pilot program to provide housing assistance to individuals recovering from substance-use disorders. The...
View ArticleHouse Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Oversight of Public Housing in Cairo,...
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance held a hearing on a recent HUD Inspector General (IG) report on HUD’s oversight of the Alexander County Housing Authority (ACHA) in...
View ArticleSenator Warren Introduces Bold Affordable Housing Bill
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) introduced on September 26 the “American Housing and Economic Mobility Act,” a bold and comprehensive affordable housing bill designed to end homelessness and housing...
View ArticleHomeland Security Releases Draft “Public Charge” Rule that Would Affect...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a draft version of a forthcoming Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposing to change the criteria used by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration...
View ArticleDisaster Housing Recovery Update, Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Hurricane FlorenceNorth CarolinaFEMA FEMA has approved 21,350 Individual Assistance applications and over $77 million total for Individual and Households programs (IHP). Dollars or applications...
View ArticleModified MTW Operations Notice Published for Comment
HUD published a modified Moving to Work (MTW) Demonstration Program “Operations Notice” on October 5 that establishes requirements for the implementing the MTW demonstration program for public housing...
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Census Bureau Unveils “Opportunity Atlas”
The Census Bureau, in conjunction with Raj Chetty and Nathan Hendren from Harvard University and John Friedman from Brown University, unveiled its “Opportunity Atlas” on October 1, which provides...
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Absentee and Early Voting Are Options for Low Income Residents
Election Day, November 6, is right around the corner. Many of us already have our voting plans set, but low income people face many challenges in getting to the polls to vote, including inflexible work...
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Additional Disaster Housing Recovery Updates – October 9, 2018
The following is a review of housing recovery developments related to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria and the California wildfires since last week’s Memo to Members and Partners (for the article in...
View ArticleHurricane Florence Disasters Housing Recovery Updates – October 9, 2018
The following is a review of housing recovery developments related to Hurricane Florence since last week’s Memo to Members and Partners (for the article in last week’s Memo, see 10/1). NLIHC also posts...
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