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House Ways and Means to Hold Hearing on FY17 Budget Proposal for Treasury
The House Committee on Ways and Means will hold a hearing on President Barack Obama’s budget proposals for the Department of Treasury for FY17 on February 11. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew will be the...
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Budget Committees Snub White House, House Budget Committee Holds Hearing
In a sharp deviation from tradition, Senate Budget Committee Chair Michael Enzi (R-WY) and House Budget Committee Chair Tom (R-GA) Price issued a joint statement on February 4 announcing they will not...
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President to Submit FY17 Budget Request on February 9, Events to Follow
President Barack Obama will submit his FY17 budget request to Congress on February 9 at 11am ET. The request will detail the Administration’s priorities for the coming fiscal year. While few details...
View ArticleTreasury Publishes Capital Magnet Fund Revised Interim Rule and Funding Notice
On February 8, the Department of the Treasury published a revised interim rule and a notice of funding availability (NOFA) for the Capital Magnet Fund (CMF). Established by the Housing and Economic...
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San Francisco Board of Supervisors Pledges to Match NHTF with City Funds
On February 2, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution (File# 150822) committing to match all National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF) dollars allocated to projects in San...
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HUD Notice on ConPlans Includes NHTF Allocation Plans
The HUD Office of Community Development and Planning issued a Notice on January 28 outlining the timing for states and entitlement jurisdictions to submit their FY16 consolidated plans (ConPlan),...
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Kathryn Edin, Author of $2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, at...
NLIHC’s 2016 Housing Policy Forum will feature Kathryn Edin discussing her ground-breaking book $2 a Day, Living on Almost Nothing in America (http://bit.ly/1PYhjrH) with reflections on the book’s...
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CORRECTION: Webcast of HUD’s FY17 Budget Request
CORRECTION: The webcast of HUD’s FY17 budget request will be tomorrow, Wednesday, February 10 (not today as we reported in this week’s Memo to Members). To join the 1 – 2pm ET webcast, go to...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The National Low Income Housing Coalition Applauds...
WASHINGTON, D.C.- The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) applauds President Obama’s request for almost $11 billion in new funding over ten years to address homelessness in the United States....
View ArticleFY17 Request Goes Bold to End Family Homelessness
President Barack Obama’s FY17 budget request seeks a long-overdue, significant investment in federal efforts to end homelessness for all families by 2020. For FY17, HUD is asking Congress to provide...
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TAKE ACTION: Sign Letter to Support Housing Funding!
Help Ensure THUD Appropriations Subcommittees Have Highest Possible Funding for Housing Programs in FY17!Groups concerned about transportation, housing, community development, and homelessness are once...
View ArticleBarriers to Employment for Section 3 Residents with Criminal Records
Revived and Discouraged: Evaluating Employment Barriers for Section 3 Residents With Criminal Records by Rebecca J. Walter, Michael Caudy, and James V. Ray explores the challenges Section 3-eligible...
View ArticleRaising Minimum Wage Would Reduce Public Assistance Spending
A report by David Cooper of the Economic Policy Institute, titled Balancing Paychecks and Public Assistance: How Higher Wages Would Strengthen What Government Can Do, finds that raising the federal...
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Still Time to Sign Up for NLIHC Voterization Webinar, February 17
The first webinar in NLIHC’s 2016 Voterization series, “Understanding and Overcoming the Challenges of Voter Registration,” will be presented on Wednesday, February 17 at 2:00pm ET. Throughout 2016,...
View ArticleHouse Democrats Ask IRS to Encourage Housing Investments to Improve Community...
On February 10, Representatives Keith Ellison (D-MN) and Joe Crowley (D-NY), along with 12 other House Democrats, sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requesting that the agency modify...
View ArticleCongressional Black Caucus Anti-Poverty Plan Gains Traction
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has proposed an anti-poverty plan, referred to as the “10-20-30” plan, that would use 10% of program funding in counties where poverty rates have persistently been...
View ArticleHouse Panel Examines Health of Federal Housing Administration
On February 11, Edward Golding, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the HUD Office of Housing, testified before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance on the financial...
View ArticleBill Would Terminate Tenancy of “Over-Income” Public Housing Residents
On February 4, Representative Phil Roe (R-TN) introduced the “Fairness in Public Housing Act of 2016,” H.R. 4485, to “ensure that public housing dwelling units are occupied by low income families.”The...
View ArticleBill Would Provide Tax Relief to Renters
On February 8, Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL) introduced the “Renters Fairness and Equality Act,” H.R. 4494, to allow tax filers to deduct from their incomes the rent they paid or accrued on their...
View ArticleAdvocates Call for Increased Funding for HOME Program
The HOME Coalition, an advocacy group of 25 affordable housing organizations including NLIHC, is circulating a sign-on letter to appropriators in the House and Senate urging them to restore funding for...
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