Senator Brown Introduces Bill to Study Housing Barriers for Trafficking...
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced the “Trafficking Victims Housing Act of 2017” (S.2305) on January 11. The bill would require the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) to conduct a...
View ArticleHouse Subcommittees Hold Hearing on Veteran Homelessness
The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittees on Economic Opportunity and Health held a hearing on January 18 to examine the issue of veterans’ homelessness. The hearing included two separate...
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 ArticleFEMA and Treasury Withhold Funds for Puerto Rico
FEMA and the U.S. Treasury Department are temporarily withholding a billion-dollar emergency loan to help Puerto Rico with disaster recovery efforts. The loan was approved by Congress several months...
View ArticleMembers of Congress Urge Action on Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands Housing...
A bipartisan group of senators sent a letter on December 22, 2017, to HUD and the government-sponsored entities (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, calling on them to extend the foreclosure moratorium...
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Celebrate NLIHC 2018 Housing Leadership Award Honorees by Making a Donation...
NLIHC’s annual Housing Leadership Awards Reception taking place in Washington DC on March 20, 2018, will recognize the 2018 Housing Leadership Award honorees Matt Desmond, MacArthur Genius awardee and...
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Register Today for NLIHC 2018 Housing Policy Forum: Building the Movement,...
The movement for socially just affordable housing solutions is growing and expanding across the country. The NLIHC 2018 Housing Policy Forum, March 19-21 in Washington DC, will provide an opportunity...
View ArticleSenators Negotiate End to Federal Government Shutdown
After failing last week to reach an agreement fund the federal government for FY18, the Senate is voting this afternoon to temporarily extend federal funding under a fourth continuing resolution (CR)...
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Ask Your Representative to Sign Dear Colleague Letter on HUD’s Suspension of...
Representatives Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Keith Ellison (D-MN) are circulating a “Dear Colleague” letter asking HUD Secretary Ben Carson to provide more information on the agency’s recent decision to...
View ArticleHundreds of Organizations Call on FEMA to Address Critical Housing Needs of...
Washington DC – More than 250 national, state, and local organizations called on FEMA to implement proven disaster-recovery housing solutions like the Disaster Housing Assistance Program (DHAP) for...
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Make Your Voice Heard: #OurHomesOurVoices Week of Action from May 1-8
It’s Time to Mobilize for Affordable HomesJoin us from May 1-8 for Our Homes, Our Voices, a National Housing Week of ActionNLIHC Members and Partners,Federal investments in proven affordable housing...
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Matthew Desmond to be Honored at NLIHC 2018 Housing Leadership Awards...
Matthew Desmond, MacArthur Genius awardee and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, will receive the 2018 Sheila Crowley Housing Justice Award at...
View ArticleFEMA Abruptly Reverses TSA Decision
FEMA on January 24 abruptly reversed temporary housing extensions for Puerto Rican families displaced to Connecticut. In response to a letter from Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and requests from...
View ArticleSenators Call for Addressing Deficiencies in House Disaster Spending Bill
A group of eight senators sent a letter on January 17 to Senate leadership urging them to “address the deficiencies” in the House-passed disaster supplemental bill, H.R. 4667. The letter urges...
View ArticleTexas Releases State Plan for Harvey Disaster Recovery
The Texas General Land Office (GLO) Community Development and Revitalization Program released the State of Texas Plan for Harvey Disaster Recovery on January 18. The plan details how the state intends...
View ArticleAdditional Updates on Disaster Housing Recovery, January 29th
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 ArticleJoin Day of Action TODAY to Protect Housing Benefits
The Center for American Progress’ HandsOff campaign has organized a digital day of action for January 29, the day before the State of the Union. The day of action seeks to highlight the upcoming...
View ArticleMayors Identify Lack of Affordable Housing as Major Concern in New Survey
The Boston University Initiative on Cities released the results of its 2017 survey of 115 mayors of cities with at least 75,000 residents. Fifty-one percent of the mayors surveyed identified housing...
View ArticleLength of Housing Assistance Driven by Demographics and Housing Market...
A report by Kirk McClure published by HUD, Length of Stay in Assisted Housing, examined the length of time that households receive assistance from one of six HUD programs for low income households,...
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Fact of the Week: Mayors Cite Lack of State or Federal Funds as Biggest...
Source: Boston University Initiative on Cities. (2018) Menino Survey of Mayors: 2017. Boston, MA
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