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Take Action: National Call-In Day Thursday To Protect Healthcare
Protect healthcare for millions of people by participating in a National Call-In Day on Thursday, June 22.The Senate is expected to vote as early as next week on legislation – similar to the American...
View ArticleFrom the Field: Delaware Advocates Make Progress on Anti-Blight Bills
Affordable housing and community development advocates from Delaware are working to gain passage of two bills designed to strengthen local governments’ ability to counter blight in their communities....
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Fact of The Week: High-Cost Rental Units Increase, Low-Cost Rental Units...
Source: Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. (2017). The State of the Nation’s Housing. Cambridge, MA: Author. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/1kKwpkW
View ArticleNew Supply of Rental Housing Not Keeping Up with Demand
The National Multifamily Housing Council and the National Apartment Association released U.S. Apartment Demand – A Forward Look, which estimates the future national demand for rental housing through...
View ArticleHarvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies Report Shows Lack of Affordable...
Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies released its annual State of the Nation’s Housing report on June 16. The report shows that 37% of American households - more than 43 million households — now...
View ArticleHUD Publishes 2017 HTF Allocations and Allocation Plan Sample Forms
HUD published the official amounts of national Housing Trust Fund (HTF) allocations to states for FY17 in the Federal Register on June 23. Allocations were posted earlier on HUD’s website (see Memo,...
View ArticleAnna Maria Farias Nominated as Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Assistant...
The Trump administration nominated Anna Maria Farias to serve as HUD’s assistant secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO). Ms. Farias is the chair of the Board of Regents at Texas...
View ArticleRepresentative Jordan Introduces Bill to Consolidate and Gut Federal Housing...
Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), a cofounder of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, introduced a bill that would consolidate nearly all federal affordable housing programs into state block grants...
View ArticleHouse Committee May Vote on Budget Resolution this Week
Republican leaders of the House Budget Committee hope to vote on a FY18 budget resolution this week, even as House GOP members continue to disagree on overall fiscal policy. The Republican proposal...
View ArticleBanking Committee to Hold Hearing on Housing Finance Reform
The Senate Committee on Banking will hold a hearing on June 29 to discuss principles of housing finance reform. Committee members will hear testimony from three witnesses:David H. Stevens, Mortgage...
View ArticleSenate Republicans Release ACA Repeal Bill
Senate Republicans released their version of the American Health Care Act, a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, on June 22. The Senate is expected to vote as early as this week on...
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Paul Ryan Delivers Speech on Vision for Tax Reform
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) delivered a speech on his vision for tax reform at the 2017 National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) Summit on June 20. His remarks touched on the potential...
View ArticleUrge Members of Congress to Fully Fund Rural Housing Investments
NLIHC urges advocates to contact their members of Congress to oppose the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to rural housing for FY18 and to fully fund rural housing investments. The president’s...
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Join More than 1,000 Organizations in Protecting and Expanding the National...
More than 1,000 national, state, and local organizations have signed onto NLIHC’s letter urging Congress to protect and expand the national Housing Trust Fund (HTF), which President Trump proposed to...
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Rally to Save Supportive Housing for the Elderly, June 27
Hundreds of advocates will participate in a “Save HUD 202 Rally” on June 27. The Section 202 program helps expand the supply of affordable housing with supportive services for the elderly. The rally...
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Events Planned Across the Country for National Housing Week of Action
NLIHC, together with state, local, and national partners, has expanded the Our Homes, Our Voices campaign this summer to include a week of activities across the country calling for increased federal...
View ArticleWeek of Action Planned to Call for More Investments in Affordable Housing and...
Washington, D.C.– The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), together with state, local, and national partners, is leading a national week of action called Our Homes, Our Voices across the...
View ArticleUrban Institute Report Finds Housing Discrimination against Same-Sex Couples...
A report by the Urban Institute, titled A Paired-Testing Pilot Study of Housing Discrimination against Same-Sex Couples and Transgender Individuals, finds that transgender individuals and male...
View ArticlePrivately Owned Subsidized Housing Lowers Chance of Living in Poor Neighborhoods
In an article published by Housing Policy Debate, Subsidized Housing and Residential Trajectories: An Application of Matched Sequence Analysis, Kwan Ok Lee, Richard Smith, and George Galster examine...
View ArticleSenate Banking Committee Discusses Housing Finance Reform
The Senate Committee on Banking held a hearing on June 29 to discuss principles of housing finance reform. Senators expressed increasing interest in a bipartisan housing finance reform bill this year...
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