Memo to Members

Former U.S. Representative John Delaney (D-MD) joins a growing list of Democratic presidential candidates calling for increased investments in affordable homes for those with the greatest needs. Mr.…

Join a Tweetstorm tomorrow, August 27, from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. ET to #DefendCivilRights and encourage advocates to submit comments opposing HUD’s proposed changes to the Disparate Impact regulation.…

Seven civil rights organizations, led by the National Fair Housing Alliance, formed the Defend Civil Rights campaign and website to mobilize responses against HUD’s proposed changes to the current…

HUD is seeking public housing agencies (PHAs) and owners of private HUD-assisted multifamily properties to volunteer for its Real Estate Inspection Center (REAC) pilot project. According to a Federal…

NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel sent a letter to FEMA Director of Individual Assistance Chris Smith outlining serious concerns with the execution FEMA Individual Assistance (IA) in Puerto Rico.…

HUD released a Federal Register notice allocating nearly $6.875 billion in mitigation funding to multiple states recovering from 2015, 2016 and 2017 disasters. The funds were approved through a…

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 8/19…

Representative Deb Haaland (D-NM) and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released a proposal for an upcoming bill, the “Honoring Promises to Native Nations Act,” which aims to address the issues…

The Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC) and the California Coalition for Rural Housing (CCRH), an NLIHC state partner, released on August 14 a comprehensive study on California Tribal…

The Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector affordable homes campaign published on August 7 a blog written by Dr. Patricia Martin, DO, a family physician at Unity Health Care Minnesota Avenue Health…

A recent paper in Housing Policy Debate, “The Cost of Code Violations: How Building Codes Shape Residential Sales Prices and Rents,” found that unresolved building code violations have a different…

Source: Joint Center for Housing Studies. (2019). State of the Nation’s Housing. Cambridge, MA.