Additional Disaster Housing Recovery Updates - December 9, 2019
The following is a review of additional disaster housing recovery developments since the last edition of Memo to Members and Partners (for the article in the previous Memo, see 11/25…
NLIHC Housing Policy Forum 2020 to Feature Leading Researchers on Ending Homelessness in America
NLIHC’s Housing Policy Forum 2020: Ending Homelessness and Housing Poverty taking place in Washington, DC, March 25-27, 2020 will feature a session with leading researchers on “Ending Homelessness in…
Jennifer Ho, Bill Faith, and Shauna Sorrells to be Honored at NLIHC 2020 Housing Leadership Awards Reception
Make a contribution to NLHC in recognition of 2020 Housing Leadership Awards honorees: Jennifer Leimaile Ho, commissioner of Minnesota Housing and former senior advisor at HUD and deputy…
Apply or Nominate for NLIHC 2020 Housing Organizing Awards Today!
Submit applications or nominations for the 2020 Annual Organizing Awards today! The honorees will be presented at the NLIHC 2019 Housing Policy Forum being held March 25-27, 2020 at the…
New York Times Profiles Daily Lives of Students Experiencing Homelessness in NYC
Written by Eliza Shapiro; Photographs by Brittainy Newman (New York Times) The New York Times published on November 19 an interactive feature article on the pervasive problem of student…
Small Area Fair Market Rents Lead to Better Locational Outcomes for Families with Children Who Move
Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research released a special issue dedicated to research on Small Area Fair Market Rents (SAFMRs). Over the next several editions of Memo, NLIHC will…
Small Area Fair Market Rents Increased Rates of Exit from the Housing Choice Voucher Program
A paper in Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, “Impact of Expanded Choice on Attrition in the Housing Voucher Program,” finds that the introduction of Small Area Fair Market…
Fact of the Week: Higher Shares of Transgender and Non-Binary People Experiencing Homelessness are Unsheltered
Source: National Alliance to End Homelessness, Demographic Data Project (2019).
What Can States and Localities Do to Preserve Publicly Supported Affordable Rental Housing? – Webinar, December 10
Register today for “Affordable Housing Preservation Solutions for State & Local Governments,” the second webinar on the preservation of affordable housing hosted by NLIHC and the Public and…
Webinar on Working with PHAs to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing, December 11
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) and the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) will hold a webinar to discuss public housing agencies’ (PHA’s) obligation to affirmatively further…
NLIHC in the News for the Week of December 1
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of December 1: “Donald Trump's new controversial homelessness czar got his start with San Antonio shelter,” The…