NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel sent a letter on September 17 to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urging the department to issue clear guidance on how communities can use the Coronavirus State…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel sent a letter to HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge and other agency officials expressing concern at recent actions by the agency to waive statutory and regulatory…
National Updates
Congress
The House Financial Services Committee voted 28 to 22 to approve the “Expediting Assistance to Renters and Landlords Act.” Learn more about the emergency rental assistance…
DHRC Updates
NLIHC’s Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition (DHRC) is a group of over 850 local, state, and national organizations working to secure disaster recovery funding and key reforms to ensure…
HUD’s Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD) issued Notice CPD-21-10 on September 13 establishing requirements for funds appropriated for the HOME Investment Partnerships Program under…
Freddie Mac announced on September 13 that, effective immediately, all future manufactured housing community transactions will include new tenant protections that exceed current state and local…
The Third District Court of Appeals in Florida issued on September 15 an opinion affirming the Opa-Locka Community Development Corporation’s (OLCDC’s) right of first refusal for the purchase of a Low…
The Opportunity Starts at Home campaign recently released the results of a national opinion poll revealing that the public is deeply concerned about the housing affordability crisis and…
A set of three reports from the United States Census Bureau—Income and Poverty in the United States: 2020, Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2020, and The Supplemental Poverty Measure:…
A brief from the NYU Furman Center, “Cracking Code Enforcement: How Cities Approach Housing Standards,” analyzes how housing code enforcement policies across the country vary. The paper explores how…
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds announced on September 8 that $100 million in discretionary funding from the American Rescue Plan Act will be deployed to expand housing availability in the state. A lack…
