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Getting Out the Vote, Voterization Webinar
The 2016 presidential election seems to be on every screen, in every paper, and in every conversation. Despite all the attention, it is likely that fewer than half of voting-eligible renters will vote...
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Over the next few months, affordable housing and community development organizations have an opportunity to influence a number of critical issues before Congress and to help break through the noise of...
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Join Organizations Across the Nation To Make Housing an Election Issue!
The conventions are over. Candidates up and down the ballot are on the campaign trail making promises and asking for votes. Let’s join forces to make sure that affordable housing is on their...
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Fact of the Week: Median Net Worth of Households by Race/Ethnicity (1983-2013)
Source: Wolff, E. (2014). Household wealth trends in the United States, 1962-2013: What happened over the Great Recession? Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. Retrieved from...
View ArticleHousehold Wealth Varies Significantly By Race
The Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) and the Institute for Policy Studies released a report titled The Ever Growing Gap that documents racial inequities in wealth accumulation and provides...
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Housing and Community Development Advocates Warn Congress about Impacts of a...
The Campaign for Housing and Community Development (CHCDF) delivered a statement to Members of Congress explaining why a long-term stopgap funding measure, known as a continuing resolution (CR), puts...
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Key Upcoming Dates Related to States’ HTF Allocation Plans
NLIHC provides state-specific information related to national Housing Trust Fund (HTF) allocation plans. The state resources, updated regularly, can be found at: http://bit.ly/28SEBVd. We also provide...
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Notice Provides Guidance for Meeting HTF Environmental Requirements
HUD has posted Notice CPD-16-14 providing guidance for meeting environmental requirements when national Housing Trust Fund (HTF) money is used for new construction and rehabilitation. The HTF...
View ArticleNashville Advocates Push Mayor, Council for More Affordable Housing
As Nashville, TN faces a growing population and housing shortage, advocates seek more affordable housing for the city’s most vulnerable. Between 2010 and 2015, the Nashville metro area added an average...
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Join “Make Room” Campaign To Make Housing an Election Issue!
The 2016 election campaigns are in high gear. Candidates are making promises and asking for votes. Join forces with the Make Room campaign to ensure affordable housing is a priority on politicians’...
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Fact of the Week: Projected Mortgage Interest Deduction (MID) Tax Expenditure...
Note: Not in constant dollars. Sources: MID projections from Table 14-2B in OMB's Analytical Perspectives (2015). HUD budget authority and budget outlay data from OMB FY17 historical tables 5.2 and...
View ArticleWell-Being of Economically Disadvantaged Americans Similar to Poorer Countries
A new paper by Luke Shaefer, Pinghui Wu, and Kathryn Edin titled Can Poverty in America Be Compared to Conditions in the World’s Poorest Countries? challenges the claim that economically disadvantaged...
View ArticleRural Development Reports $5.6 Billion Needed To Preserve Rural Multifamily...
Rural Development (RD) at the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a report outlining the costs to maintain and upgrade the Rural Housing Services’ (RHS’s) inventory of 14,650 multifamily housing...
View ArticleHUD Announces Next MTW Research Advisory Committee Meetings
The next two-day meeting of the Moving to Work (MTW) Research Advisory Committee (see Memo, 7/18) will take place on Thursday, September 1 from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm ET and Friday September 2, from 8:00...
View ArticleHOME FAQ on Assisting People at Risk of Losing Housing
HUD issued a frequently asked questions (FAQ) explaining that a participating jurisdiction (PJ) may use HOME Investment Partnerships Program funds for a tenant-based rental assistance (TBRA) program...
View ArticleNotice Implements $5 Million Tenant Protection Voucher Set-Aside
HUD issued a Notice implementing the $5 million set-aside in the “FY16 Appropriations Act” for tenant protection vouchers for low income households who may have to pay more than 30% of their income for...
View ArticleHUD, HHS, DOJ Remind Service Providers Not to Use Immigration Status to...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), and HUD issued a joint letter on August 5 reminding recipients of federal financial funding that they must...
View ArticleNLIHC Submits Comments on Proposed Small Area FMR Rule
NLIHC submitted comments regarding HUD’s proposed rule to use Small Area Fair Market Rents (Small Area FMRs or SAFMRs) instead of 50th Percentile FMRs as a means to deconcentrate the use of Housing...
View ArticleSenators Urge HUD to Issue Guidance on How Nuisance Ordinances May Violate Laws
Twenty-nine senators, led by Senator Al Franken (D-MN), sent a letter to HUD Secretary Julián Castro urging HUD to provide written guidance regarding how local nuisance ordinances may violate the Fair...
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