Study Finds HUD Is Inadequately Meeting the Needs of Disabled Households
A study published in Housing Policy Debate, “The Characteristics and Unmet Housing Program Needs of Disabled HUD-Assisted Households” by Casey Dawkins and Mark Miller, finds a mismatch between the...
View ArticleInadequate Funding Puts Housing Vouchers At-Risk
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) issued a report, Substantial Funding Boost Needed to Renew Housing Vouchers in 2017, estimating that the cost of renewing current housing vouchers in...
View ArticleWhite House Promises Budget within Weeks
White House Spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters on February 9 that the Trump Administration will submit a budget blueprint to Congress “within a few weeks.” Lawmakers and other observers had...
View ArticleNLIHC Submits Comments on OMB Guidance for Implementing Executive Order...
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) posted guidance for implementing Executive Order (EO) 13771 that requires federal agencies to repeal at least two existing regulations for each new proposed...
View ArticleUnited for Homes Endorser Webinar Series
The second webinar in a series for United for Homes (UFH) campaign endorsers was held on Wednesday, February 8, 2 pm ET. The webinar focused on best practices for media strategies to promote the UFH...
View ArticleThirty House Democrats Call For Reinvesting Savings from Housing-Related Tax...
Thirty Democratic Representatives led by Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) will send a Dear Colleague letter this week to the House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Ranking...
View ArticleRon Terwilliger Provides Matching Gift for NLIHC 2017 Housing Leadership...
NLIHC is pleased to announce that J. Ronald Terwilliger has provided a generous matching gift for the 2017 Housing Leadership Awards Reception! Make a contribution today and your support will be...
View ArticleAffordable Housing and Transportation Programs Threatened
Funding for affordable housing, community development, and transportation programs is under attack. Contact Congress today and tell them to protect the federal spending needed to ensure families and...
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Fact of the Week: Mortgage Interest Deduction Expenditures to Grow 41% from...
Source: Joint Committee on Taxation. (2017). Estimates of federal tax expenditures for fiscal years 2016-2020. Washington, DC: Author. Retrieved from...
View ArticleSome Moving to Work Public Housing Agencies Promote Mobility
The Urban Institute released a report, Moving to Work and Neighborhood Opportunity, summarizing the mobility-related initiatives of 39 Moving to Work (MTW) public housing agencies (PHAs). MTW is a...
View ArticleCuts to Safety Net Would Disproportionately Affect Working-Age Adults without...
A report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), Poverty Reduction Programs Help Adults Lacking College Degrees the Most, finds that 87% of working-age adults (18 to 64 years of age)...
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Renters in High-Cost Cities Express Strong NIMBYism
A report by Michael Hankinson at Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, When Do Renters Behave Like Homeowners? High Rent, Price Anxiety, and NIMBYism, finds that renters in high-cost housing...
View ArticleHUD Provides Guidance on Implementing Smoke-Free Public Housing Rule
HUD published Notice PIH-2017-03 providing guidance to public housing agencies (PHAs) regarding instituting and enforcing smoke-free policies in public housing, as required by a final rule issued on...
View ArticleHUD Has Approved Thirty-eight HTF Allocation Plans
HUD has approved 38 national Housing Trust Fund (HTF) Allocation Plans as of February 17. Of the 38, HUD has publicly identified 21: Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana,...
View ArticleHouse Committee Examines the Geography of Poverty
The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources held a hearing on “The Geography of Poverty” the week of February 12. The hearing explored the increasing poverty in suburban communities, the...
View ArticleSenate Approves Cabinet Picks for Treasury and OMB
The Senate voted to confirm two of President Donald Trump’s nominees for cabinet positions. Steven Mnuchin was confirmed on February 13 as secretary of the Department of the Treasury by a largely...
View ArticleRepresentative Ellison Introduces Legislation to End Homelessness and Housing...
Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) reintroduced on February 8 the “Common Sense Housing Investment Act of 2017,” (H.R. 948) to end homelessness and housing poverty through tax reform. The bill calls...
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Check Out the New United for Homes Website!
NLIHC has launched a new United for Homes (UFH) website to advance the campaign to make modest reforms to the mortgage interest deduction (MID) that would benefit millions of lower income homeowners...
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Time is Running Out to Register for NLIHC’s 2017 Housing Policy Forum:...
Register today for NLIHC’s 2017 Housing Policy Forum: Advancing Solutions in a Changing Landscape. The forum will take place at the Washington Court Hotel, Washington, DC, April 2-4. The Forum is...
View ArticleJoin Webinar on NLIHC’s New Housing Affordability GAP Report, March 2
NLIHC will hold a webinar on the 2017 edition of its report The GAP: A Shortage of Affordable Homes on March 2. The report measures the availability of rental housing affordable to extremely low income...
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