HUD Updates Status of Multifamily Properties in Disaster Areas
HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing Programs provided stakeholders with a status report on privately owned HUD-assisted properties in areas hit by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. As of February...
View ArticleNLIHC Creates Outline of CDBG-DR Federal Register Notice for Residents and...
NLIHC has prepared a simple outline for residents and advocates to help them understand the requirements related to an Action Plan, public participation, and reporting that must be met in order to...
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NLIHC Housing Policy Forum, March 19-21, to Explore Non-Partisan Voter...
NLIHC’s 2018 Housing Policy Forum: Building the Movement taking place in Washington, DC, March 19-21, 2018 will feature a session titled “Housing Is Built with Ballots: Non-partisan Voter Engagement...
View ArticleUrge Congress to Provide Robust Funding for Affordable Housing and Reject...
President Donald Trump’s FY19 budget request slashes federal housing benefits that help millions of low income seniors, people with disabilities, families with children, low-wage workers, veterans, and...
View ArticleDisaster Housing Recovery Update, Monday, February 26, 2018
HUD UpdatesHUD announced on February 22 that the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) expanded mortgage relief for FHA-insured homeowners impacted by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria as well as the...
View ArticleDisaster Housing Recovery Update, Wednesday, February 28, 2018
General UpdatesPlagiarized Contract. Senators Claire McCakill (D-MO), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), and Gary Peters (D-MI) found that a company plagiarized their contract proposal with FEMA. FEMA ended their...
View ArticleOver 700 National & State Organizations Condemn FEMA’s Continued Neglect of...
Washington – The National Low Income Housing Coalition and its partners, on behalf of the Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition of over 700 national, state, and local organizations, condemn FEMA’s...
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Donate Today in Honor of Housing Leadership Awardees Matt Desmond, Lisa...
Make a donation to NLIHC in honor of the 2018 Housing Leadership Awardees: Matthew Desmond, MacArthur Genius awardee and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the...
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Fact of the Week: Higher Percentages of Black and Hispanic Renter Households...
Extremely low income households have incomes at or below the poverty level or 30% of their area median income. Source: NLIHC tabulation of 2016 ACS PUMS.
View ArticleNLIHC Seeks Graphic Design/Communications Intern for the Summer
NLIHC is accepting applications for a graphic design/communications intern for the summer. Interns are highly valued and fully integrated into our staff work. We seek students passionate about social...
View ArticleNLIHC to Host Two Lobby Day Webinars, March 8 and 13
NLIHC will hold two webinars in March in preparation for NLIHC’s annual Capitol Hill Lobby Day taking place March 21. The first webinar on March 8 at 3:00 pm ET will provide an introduction to...
View ArticleNeighborWorks Training Institute to be Held in Kansas City, May 7-11
Kansas City, MO will host the NeighborWorks Training Institute (NTI) the week of May 7-11. The NTI offers more than 100-course offerings in affordable housing development and financing; housing asset...
View ArticleNew York Housing Conference Launches #TrumpRentHike Calculator for Advocacy
In response to the Trump administration’s proposals to raise rents for HUD-assisted households, the New York Housing Conference (NYHC) has developed the #TrumpRentHike Calculator, an advocacy tool to...
View ArticleAffordable Housing ‘Capacity Accelerator’ Program Launches in Atlanta
To help Atlanta metro area community development corporations (CDCs) create and preserve more affordable homes, Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. (Enterprise), NeighborWorks America, the Georgia...
View ArticleNHLP Offers Six-Part Webinar Series on Preserving HUD Multifamily Housing
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) will be hosting six 30-minute introductory webinars about preserving HUD-assisted Multifamily housing. For every new affordable home created, two are lost due to...
View ArticleInterim Evaluation of Permanent Supportive Housing Program Shows Positive...
The Urban Institute released an interim evaluation of new permanent supportive housing (PSH) projects funded by the Missouri Foundation for Health’s Show Me Healthy Housing (SMHH) program, a grant...
View ArticleRanking Member Maxine Waters Requests GAO Study on State of Homelessness
Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-CA) requested on February 23 that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conduct a study on the state of homelessness in America. Ms....
View ArticleHousing Assistance May Provide Health Benefits
A recent study by Deirdre Pfeiffer, “Rental Housing Assistance and Health: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation,” published in Housing Policy Debate reports that low income...
View ArticleAdditional Disaster Housing Recovery Updates – March 5
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 ArticleNLIHC in the News for the Week of February 25
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of February 25:“Affordable Housing Shortage,” CQ Researcher, March 2 at: http://bit.ly/2oJV2de“Utah lawmakers reject...
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