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House Conservatives Call Spending Caps Too High
Despite promises and pleas for “regular order” in the annual budget process by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI), House Republicans’ most conservative wing, the House Freedom Caucus, is complaining...
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President Sends FY17 Request to Congress
President Barack Obama delivered his FY17 budget request to Congress on February 9. The request is the first formal action toward completing FY17 appropriations bills before the October 1 start of the...
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Mortgage Interest Deduction Projections Down
The annual budget prepared by the Office of Management and Budget includes a report on the estimated cost of tax expenditures for the immediate past year and ten years going forward. Federal law...
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NHTF in President Obama’s Budget Request
The FY17 budget proposed by President Barack Obama cites $182 million as the amount that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will provide for the National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF) in 2016. This is...
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Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing at Housing Policy Forum, April 3-5
NLIHC’s 2016 Housing Policy Forum will include a plenary panel discussion about the new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule and its implications for states, jurisdictions and public housing...
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Diane Yentel to be New President of National Low Income Housing Coalition
WASHINGTON, D.C.- Diane Yentel, veteran affordable housing policy expert and advocate, has been named as the new President and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) by the...
View ArticleNLIHC Still Accepting Applications for Summer 2016 Internships
NLIHC is accepting resumes for summer 2016 internship positions. Interns are highly valued and fully integrated into our staff work. We seek students passionate about social justice issues, with...
View ArticleFrom the Field: Virginia Advocates Lobby for Affordable Housing
Members of the Virginia Housing Alliance (VHA), an NLIHC State Partner, turned out in record numbers in Richmond on February 11 for VHA’s annual Housing Day. Virginia advocates have carried out a...
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Fact of the Week: Share of Low to Moderate Income Working Households That are...
Note: Low and moderate income working households are those with a member who works on average at least 20 hours per week and have household income at or below 120% of area median income (AMI).Source:...
View ArticleSevere Cost Burdens Decline for Low to Moderate Income Working Households
The National Housing Conference released their annual Housing Landscape 2016 report, which examines housing affordability trends for low to moderate income (LMI) working households. LMI working...
View ArticleRenting on the Rise across All Demographics
Mark Uh, a researcher at Trulia, finds that the homeownership rate has dropped 5% in the 50 largest metropolitan areas since the Great Recession, while the renter-occupancy rate has increased by 5%...
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Webinar on Educating Voters and Candidates on Housing Issues, April 18
The second webinar in NLIHC’s 2016 Voterization series, “Educating Voters and Candidates on Housing Issues,” will be presented on Monday, April 18 at 2:00pm ET. The presentation will provide detailed...
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Hillary Clinton Releases Plan to Address Affordable Rental Housing
On February 12, Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released her “Breaking Every Barrier Agenda,” a sweeping economic plan that includes several proposals to...
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Deadline Extended to Feb. 29 to Sign Letter Supporting THUD Funding
Advocates for transportation, housing, community development, and ending homelessness are working together to urge Congress to provide the highest possible funding for the Transportation, Housing and...
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House Budget Resolution Debate Continues
Congress returns from its Presidents’ Day recess on February 23. The House of Representatives will continue its debate about whether or not there will be an FY17 budget resolution and what it will...
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FHFA Director Mel Watt Urges Congress to Pass Meaningful Housing Finance Reform
Speaking at the Bipartisan Policy Center on February 18, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt again urged Congress to pass meaningful housing finance reform to end the uncertainty...
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NLIHC Estimates of NHTF Allocations for 2016
Based on their annual 10K reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission during the week of February 15, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac together will transfer $186.6 million to the Federal...
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Senator Tim Kaine To Address Housing and Criminal Justice Reform at NLIHC...
U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) will discuss the need for affordable housing for formerly incarcerated individuals in any criminal justice reform efforts at NLIHC’s 2016 Housing Policy Forum, which takes...
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Diane Yentel Named New NLIHC President and CEO
The Board of Directors of the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) has named veteran affordable housing policy expert and advocate Diane Yentel the Coalition’s new President and CEO. She will...
View ArticleMarch 8 Webinar on Family Unification and Family Self Sufficiency
On March 8, the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) will host a webinar on HUD’s Family Unification Program (FUP) and the Family Self Sufficiency (FSS) Demonstration program authorized in the FY15...
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