From the Field: New Hampshire Housing Advocates Win Increased Funding for...
New Hampshire housing advocates, including Housing Action NH, an NLIHC state partner, are celebrating a vote by the State Legislature for a $2 million appropriation for supportive housing for people...
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Housing Advocates Provide Input to Political Party Platform Committees
Dr. Sheila Crowley, former president and CEO of NLIHC, testified before the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Platform Drafting Committee on June 8 on the housing needs of the lowest income people....
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Fact of the Week: Student Homelessness on the Rise 2007-2014
Source: Civic Enterprises. (2016). Hidden in Plain Sight: Homeless Students in America’s Public Schools. Ingram, et al. http://civicenterprises.net/MediaLibrary/Docs/HiddeninPlainSightOfficial.pdfED...
View ArticleMuch More Needs to be Done to House Homeless Students
A report by Civic Enterprises and Hart Research Associates, Hidden in Plain Sight: Homeless Students in America’s Public Schools, analyzes the increase in housing instability among children in public...
View ArticleFederal Housing Expenditures Disproportionately Benefit Higher Income Homeowners
A publication by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), titled Chart Book: Federal Housing Spending Is Poorly Matched to Need, illustrates the extent to which federal housing expenditures...
View ArticleSurvey Finds Widespread Support for Affordable Housing
The MacArthur Foundation released findings from its 2016 How Housing Matters Survey on June 16. Eighty-one percent of respondents believed that housing affordability is a problem, and 68% believed that...
View ArticleHUD Makes Changes to Interim Continuums of Care Rule
HUD has made two amendments to the current interim Continuum of Care (CoC) program regulations. One amendment allows individuals and families to choose to live outside of a CoC’s geographic area while...
View ArticleHUD Issues Proposed Rule to Use Small Area Fair Market Rents
HUD published a proposed rule to use Small Area Fair Market Rents (Small Area FMRs) instead of 50th Percentile FMRs as a means to deconcentrate the use of Housing Choice vouchers in select metropolitan...
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Amendments to CJS Spending Bill Would Undermine Fair Housing and Census...
During Senate consideration of the FY17 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies (CJS) appropriations bill, several senators filed amendments that would undermine the Fair Housing Act and...
View ArticleCoalition on Human Needs Hosts Briefing on Alleviating Poverty and Expanding...
The Coalition on Human Needs, in conjunction with cosponsors including NLIHC, hosted a Congressional briefing Thursday, June 16 entitled “What Works - and What Doesn’t - to Reduce Poverty and Expand...
View ArticleSenate Bill Would Eliminate Nearly All Federal Housing Programs
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the “Welfare Reform and Upward Mobility Act” (S. 3047) that would eliminate nearly all federal affordable housing programs by consolidating them into a state block...
View ArticleNLIHC Welcomes New Field Intern Madeline McHale
Madeline McHale joins NLIHC as a Field Intern for the summer. Madeline is originally from Seattle, WA, but attends Connecticut College in New London, CT, where she is studying Sociology and Dance....
View ArticleWebinar on Protecting Tenants in RAD Communities
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) will hold a webinar focused on protecting tenants in communities where their public housing is being converted to project-based vouchers (PBV) or Section 8...
View ArticleFrom the Field: Affordable Housing Development Incentives Will Be Decided by...
The Los Angeles City Council voted to place an affordable housing ballot initiative before voters in November. Voters will decide whether proposed developments will receive allowances for exceeding...
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Fact of the Week: Extremely Low Income Households Especially at Risk of Eviction
Source: Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. (2016). The State of the Nation’s Housing 2016. Cambridge, MA: Author. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/28QIWINNotes: Extremely income...
View ArticleHarvard Joint Center for Housing Studies Releases State of the Nation’s...
The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University released The State of the Nation’s Housing 2016 on June 22. This year’s report highlights the changing demographics driving the demand for...
View ArticleHUD Announces Actions Relating to Native Americans
HUD recently announced three actions relating to Native Americans: the release of an improved Tribal government-to-government consultation policy, the release of a draft plan to establish a Tribal...
View ArticleHUD Announces Members of MTW Advisory Committee
Fifteen individuals were selected to serve as members of the new Moving to Work (MTW) demonstration Advisory Committee. The “Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016” requires HUD to establish a...
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Congress Likely to Pass Stopgap Funding Measure
Given Congress’s inability to move all twelve federal spending bills, House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) stated that Congress will have to pass a stopgap spending measure, known as a continuing...
View ArticleSenate Hearing on Native Communities’ Access to Rural Development Programs
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs held an oversight hearing on June 22 to address the issue of accessibility of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Development programs to native...
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