NLIHC President & CEO a guest on the Diane Rehm Show
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel was a guest on NPR's Diane Rehm show titled "Federal Housing Policies And How They May Shift During The Trump Administration." You can listen to the recording of...
View ArticleNLIHC Accepting Nominations to Board of Directors
NLIHC is currently accepting nominations to fill several upcoming vacancies on its board of directors. To be considered for board membership, one must be a current member of NLIHC and be affiliated...
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Thought-Leaders to Speak at NLIHC 2017 Housing Policy Forum: Advancing...
NLIHC will showcase a compelling line-up of thought leaders at the 2017 Housing Policy Forum: Advancing Solutions in a Changing Landscape, taking place in Washington, DC, April 2-4. The forum will...
View ArticleNew 5-year Estimates from American Community Survey Released
The U.S. Census Bureau released the 2011-2015 five-year American Community Survey (ACS) estimates on December 8. The ACS is an annual nationwide survey of approximately 3.5 million households that...
View ArticleFrom the Field: Indiana Association for Community Economic Development...
The Indiana Association for Community Economic Development (IACED), an NLIHC state partner, hosted its 30th Anniversary Celebration at the annual Prosperity Indiana Summit on November 14. The...
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Fact of the Week: Number of Beneficiaries of Mortgage Interest Tax Break
Source: Tax Policy Center, 2016.
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HUD Releases Community Assessment Reporting Tool
HUD released the Community Assessment Reporting Tool (CART) on December 6. CART allows users to map and explore data about key HUD investments in cities, counties, metropolitan areas, congressional...
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Congress Passes Stopgap Measure to Keep Government Funded Through April 28
With just hours to spare before the deadline, Congress avoided a government shutdown by passing a short-term continuing resolution (CR) on December 9. The CR maintains the FY17 spending cap of $1.07...
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CBO Analyzes UFH Reforms to the Mortgage Interest Deduction
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a nonpartisan agency that provides budget and economic analysis to Congress, released a new report on December 8 outlining the pros and cons of 115 proposals to...
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Tax Policy Center Analyzes UFH MID Reform Proposals, Finds They Would Raise...
The Tax Policy Center (TPC), a joint center of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, completed a new analysis of the United for Homes’ (UFH) proposal to reform the mortgage interest...
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Representative Ellison Introduces Bill Clarifying Mortgage Interest Deduction...
Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) introduced the “Tax Benefit for Homeownership Clarification Act” (H.R. 6492) on December 8 to clarify the amount of mortgage interest a person can deduct from their...
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NLIHC to Relaunch United for Homes Campaign on January 11
The NLIHC-led United for Homes (UFH) campaign, calling for rebalanced federal housing investments through mortgage interest deduction (MID) reform, will relaunch on January 11. President-elect Trump...
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Submit Nominations for 2017 NLIHC Organizing Award
NLIHC is accepting nominations for the 2017 Annual Organizing Award. The Organizing Award recognizes outstanding achievement during 2016 in state, local and/or resident organizing activity that...
View ArticleJoin Letter Urging Congress to Lift Harmful Sequester Spending Caps
NDD United, a broad group of stakeholders interested in protecting federal nondefense discretionary (NDD) funding, is coordinating a sign-on letter urging Congress to end the harmful sequester caps,...
View ArticleJoin SAVE for All Letter Urging President and Congress to Protect and Assist...
The Strengthening America’s Value and Economy (SAVE) for All Campaign is circulating a coalition letter urging Congress and President-elect Donald Trump to support policies that protect and assist low...
View ArticleDecember 15 Deadline to Submit Affordable Housing Success Stories to Share...
December 15 is the deadline for submitting affordable housing success stories for a national report on the broad, positive impacts of HUD and USDA affordable housing programs to share with Members of...
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DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 6: Still time to share your housing success
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 6: There's still time to share your housing success story for a new national reportHousing advocates are developing a report to highlight the positive impacts of federal...
View ArticleHarvard Joint Center for Housing Studies Projects Significant Growth in Older...
The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University (JCHS) released Projections & Implications for Housing a Growing Population: Older Households 2015-2035. JCHS projects that the number of...
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Resources Promote Homeless Preferences at HUD Multifamily Properties
HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing Programs (HUD Multifamily) has prepared a short video and two webinars to encourage property owners to adopt preferences for admitting homeless people in multifamily...
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VAWA Forms Issued by Office of Multifamily Housing
HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing Programs issued four model forms that owners and managing agents of HUD-assisted private housing must use to comply with the “Violence Against Women Act” (VAWA)...
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