House Passes Bill Commissioning Study on Streamlining Disaster Data and Damage Assessment Collection
The House of Representatives voted on October 29 to approve legislation directing HUD, FEMA, and other federal agencies involved in federal disaster recovery efforts to study ways of streamlining the…
Additional Disaster Housing Recovery Updates – November 4, 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 10…
NLIHC To Offer More Sessions for Low-Income Residents at 2020 Housing Policy Forum
NLIHC’s Housing Policy Forum 2020: Ending Homelessness and Housing Poverty taking place in Washington, DC, March 25-27, 2020 will offer a special extended session for low-income residents…
NLIHC Announces 2020 Housing Leadership Award Honorees: Jennifer Ho, Bill Faith, and Shauna Sorrells
Today NLIHC announces the 2020 Housing Leadership Awards honorees: Jennifer Leimaile Ho, commissioner of Minnesota Housing and former senior advisor at HUD and deputy director of the U.S.…
Register Today for November 21 ‘Our Homes, Our Votes’ Webinar on Election Engagement Partners and Tools
Register today for NLIHC’s 15-month “Third Thursdays at Three” webinar and podcast series on nonpartisan voter and candidate engagement, Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020. The third webinar will…
Montana Governor Bullock Announces Affordable Housing Proposal
Montana Governor Steve Bullock has joined other Democratic presidential candidates in recognizing that affordable homes are the foundation to one’s wellbeing and that bold action is needed to…
House Financial Services Subcommittee Holds Hearing on LGBTQ+ Discrimination in Lending and Housing
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing, “Financial Services and the LGBTQ+ Community: A Review of Discrimination in Lending and Housing” on October…
Multi-Sector Campaign Welcomes the Housing Network of Rhode Island As New State Partner
The Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector affordable homes campaign is pleased to announce a new state partner, The Housing Network of Rhode Island (HNRI), has joined the campaign.…
Physical Conditions and Financial Viability of Early Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) Projects Show Some Improvements
A recent report from HUD, Final Report: Evaluation of HUD’s Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD), aims to evaluate the extent to which the RAD program has achieved its affordable housing…
Distribution of Single-Family Rental Homes Reflects Effects of 2008 Housing Crisis
A recent paper in Housing Policy Debate, “A Latent Profile Analysis of Suburban Single-Family Rental Housing (SFR) Neighborhoods,” categorizes neighborhoods with high concentrations of…
Fact of the Week: High Rates of Housing Cost-Burdened Households Headed by Older Adults, Especially Among Renters
Source: JCHS tabulations of U.S. Census Bureau, 2017 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates. Housing cost-burdened households spend more than 30% of their incomes on housing and…