Los Angeles City Council Unanimously Passes Linkage Fee to Fund Affordable...
Another significant victory for affordable homes in Los Angeles occurred when the City Council established a new fee on developers that will raise revenue for affordable housing production. The...
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Fact of the Week: Over 80% of Lowest Income Households Suffer Housing Cost...
Source: Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. (2017). America’s Rental Housing 2017. Cambridge, MA: Author.
View ArticlePeople with Disabilities Face Significant Affordability Challenges in the...
A report by the Technical Assistance Collaborative and the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities, Priced Out: The Housing Crisis for People with Disabilities, calls attention to the affordability...
View ArticleRental Housing Study Highlights High Level of Cost Burdens for Lowest Income...
The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University released its biennial rental housing study, America’s Rental Housing 2017, on December 14. The report finds that the decade-long growth in...
View ArticlePermanent Supportive Housing Program Improves Mental Health and Reduces...
A new report by researchers at the RAND Corporation, Evaluation of Housing for Health Permanent Supportive Housing Program,examines Los Angeles County’s permanent supportive housing (PSH) program...
View ArticleHUD Seeks Comments about Suspension of Small Area FMR Rule
HUD published a notice in the Federal Register on December 12, 2017 offering the public an opportunity to comment on its surprise August 11, 2017 two-year suspension of the requirement that public...
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HUD Issues Interim Rule Implementing FAST Act
HUD published an interim rule on December 12 that amends March 8, 2016 regulatory language for public housing, vouchers, and HUD Multifamily rental housing assistance programs (see Memo, 3/7/16). The...
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House Committee Passes Bill Jeopardizing the National Housing Trust Fund
The House Financial Services Committee passed 13 bills on December 13, including H.R. 4560, the “GSE Jumpstart Reauthorization Act of 2017.” H.R. 4560 would require Federal Housing Finance Agency...
View ArticleHouse Committee Releases Details on Third Stopgap Funding Measure
The House Appropriations Committee released on December 13 the details on a stopgap funding measure, known as a continuing resolution (CR), which would fund the government at FY17 levels through...
View ArticleAdditional Updates on Disaster Housing Recovery
The following is a review of additional housing recovery developments related to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, and the California wildfires since last week’s Memo to Members and Partners (for the...
View ArticleDisaster Supplemental May Receive a Vote This Week
Congressional leaders are expected to unveil the next supplemental disaster relief funding bill this week for communities affected by hurricanes and wildfires in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico, the U.S....
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Deadline Approaching for Nominations for NLIHC 2018 Organizing Awards
Make a nomination before 5:00 pm E.T. on Friday, January 12, 2018 for the NLIHC 2018 Annual Organizing Awards. These awards recognize outstanding achievement during 2017 in statewide, regional,...
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NLIHC 2018 Housing Policy Forum to Explore Building the National Affordable...
NLIHC’s 2018 Housing Policy Forum taking place in Washington, DC, March 19-21, 2018, will focus on building the affordable housing movement in 2018 and beyond. In the summer of 2017, advocates in sixty...
View ArticleCongress Votes Tomorrow on Final Tax Bill
The House and Senate are expected to vote Tuesday on a final tax reform bill, after conference committee Republicans resolved the differences between the House- and Senate-passed versions on December...
View ArticleDisaster Housing Recovery Coalition Update - December 19, 2017
The big news: Last night the House released its $81 billion disaster aid package. According to Politico, it is the largest single funding request for natural calamities in U.S. history and nearly...
View ArticleStatement by National Low Income Housing Coalition President and CEO Diane...
Washington, DC - The final tax bill passed by the Senate yesterday and the House today fails to expand housing resources for people with the lowest incomes, but instead provides massive tax cuts to...
View ArticleStatement by National Low Income Housing Coalition President and CEO Diane...
Washington DC – The emergency relief bill, passed by the House today, is an important step in providing communities devastated by this year’s hurricanes and wildfires with the critical resources they...
View ArticleDisaster Housing Recovery Update, Friday, December 22, 2017
Despite the admonitions of senators from disaster-affected states, a third disaster aid supplemental installment was not attached to the continuing resolution Congress passed last night to keep the...
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This Week in Washington: Tax Reform, Stopgap Funding Bill, Disaster Aid...
Tax Reform Signed Into LawThis afternoon, President Donald Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which was approved by Republicans in Congress earlier this week. The tax bill fails to expand...
View ArticleDisaster Housing Recovery Update, 3 January 2018
CALIFORNIAFEMAGovernor Brown’s office sent an official request for a major disaster declaration for the southern California wildfires on December 20, and the President was to evaluate this request with...
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