House Democrats Again Attempt to End Shutdown
The partial federal government shutdown, now a month long, continues as Democrats and Republicans remain at an impasse over funding for a southwestern border wall. Last week, House Democrats continued...
View ArticleLatest Updates on the Shutdown’s Impact on Low-Income Residents and the...
NLIHC and other leaders of the Campaign for Housing and Community Development Funding (CHCDF) have published an updated factsheet with the latest details on how the federal government shutdown impacts...
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Point of View: End the Shutdown, Stop Eviction Threats – by NLIHC President...
Diane Yentel, NLIHC President & CEOThe senseless government shutdown is wreaking havoc on the lives of low income seniors, people with disabilities, families with children and others throughout the...
View ArticleStatement from National Low Income Housing Coalition President and CEO Diane...
Washington, DC – The shutdown was a disgrace, causing stress and hardship for our country’s lowest-income and most vulnerable people. Over time, we will learn the extent of the longer-term damage done...
View ArticleCongress and White House Reach Agreement to Reopen Federal Government for...
Congress and White House Reach Agreement to Reopen Federal Government for Three Weeks. Sign Letter Demanding Full-Year Spending Bills that Fund Affordable Housing. President Trump announced on January...
View ArticleWhere to Find Us – January 28
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months:Discussion on Housing, Homelessness and Collaboration, Anchorage, AK, on January...
View ArticleNLIHC Seeks Field Intern for the Winter-Spring 2019 Semester
NLIHC is accepting applications for its field internship position for the winter/spring 2019 semester. The NLHC field intern assists our Field team in creating email campaigns focused on important...
View ArticleNLIHC Seeks a New Housing Advocacy Organizer
NLIHC seeks a well-qualified and talented housing advocacy organizer. As a member of the NLIHC field team, the housing advocacy organizer mobilizes NLIHC members and partners on federal policy advocacy...
View ArticleNLIHC Welcomes Brooke Schipporeit as Housing Advocacy Organizer
NLIHC is pleased to welcome Brooke Schipporeit to its field team as its newest housing advocacy organizer. Brooke comes to NLIHC from Nebraska by way of Philadelphia, PA, where she spent the last few...
View ArticlePre-Event Registration Deadline for February 18-22 NeighborWorks Training...
January 28 is the pre-event registration deadline for the NeighborWorks Training Institute (NTI) being held in Cleveland, OH, February 18-22. The NTI is a premier provider of affordable housing and...
View ArticleNLIHC in the News for the Week of January 20
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of January 20.“‘It’s like the real-life Hunger Games in America:’ Shutdown threatens HUD’s protections for...
View ArticleFrom the Field: Advocates Celebrate Ohio Mayor’s Affordable Housing Bond...
Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther proposed on January 14 that $50 million out of a $1.03 billion bond package be devoted to affordable housing. Columbus residents will vote on the bond proposal on May 7,...
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Fact of the Week: Shortage of Homes Affordable and Available to the...
Source: NLIHC tabulations of CHAS 2011-2015 data.
View ArticleFair Housing Testing in Chicago Finds Discrimination Based on Race and Source...
A study by the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, Fair Housing Testing Project for the Chicago Commission on Human Relations, tested for source-of-income and racial discrimination in six...
View ArticleDisaster Housing Recovery Updates – January 28, 2019
The following is a review of disaster housing recovery developments since the last edition of Memo to Members and Partners (for the article in the previous Memo, see 1/22). NLIHC also posts this...
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Honor 2019 Housing Leadership Awardee Representative Emanuel Cleaver
Join NLIHC in recognizing 2019 Housing Leadership Award honoree Representative Emanuel Cleaver, who will receive the 2019 Edward Brooke Housing Leadership Award for his years of leadership in Congress,...
View ArticleNLIHC’s 2019 Housing Policy Forum to Elevate Rural and Native Housing Issues...
The needs of rural and Native American tribal areas can often be overlooked in conversations about affordable housing, but the need in these places is no less severe. In fact, in many cases it is far...
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Opportunity Starts at Home Hosts Congressional Briefing to Unveil “Within...
The Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector affordable homes campaign hosted a congressional briefing on January 24 with over 110 Capitol Hill staffers and advocates to unveil the release of its...
View ArticleNHLP Provides Updated Legal Memo on Rights of Housing-Assisted Residents...
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) has updated its legal overview of the impact of the partial federal government shutdown on residents in key HUD and USDA Rural Development (RD) assisted housing...
View ArticleCongress and the White House Reach Agreement to Reopen Government for Three...
As the partial federal government shutdown approached week six and with the Senate voting but failing to pass either of two competing funding bills on January 24, President Trump announced on the...
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