The Housing Assistance Council (HAC) will hold the first of two webinars regarding HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) vouchers for veterans on September 12. VASH vouchers are Housing…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of August 26.
“Herald editorial: Work needed to solve housing affordability,” Daily Herald, August 30 at:…
Dina Pinsky joins NLIHC as a research intern for the fall semester. Dina is a senior at the University of Maryland at College Park, studying sociology and economics. Dina recently worked at an early…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months:
Interagency CRA & Disaster Recovery Listening Session, Houston, TX, on…
August 25 marked the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Harvey making landfall in Texas, the first of three major hurricanes to hit in rapid succession in 2017, impacting Texas, Florida, the U.S.…
In response to an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (see Memo, 5/14 and 6/25), NLIHC, eight Democratic senators, and other fair housing advocates submitted separate comment letters regarding HUD’…
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced a bill (S. 3365) to create a Middle Income Housing Tax Credit (MIHTC) for properties where at least 60% of homes are occupied by households with incomes at or…
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee held a field hearing on August 25 discussing “Overcrowded Housing and the Impacts on American Indian and Alaska Natives.” The hearing, held in Savoonga, AK,…
The six part Our Homes, Our Votes webinar series on non-partisan voter engagement concluded on August 21, and recordings and PowerPoint slides for each webinar are now available on the Our Homes, Our…
The Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector affordable housing campaign hosted its first webinar titled “Broadening the Housing Movement: Learn more about the Opportunity Starts at Home Campaign” on…
HUD has posted a new list of Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) applications under review or pending. HUD will no longer publish the RAD Waitlist because 455,000 public housing units may now be…
A study conducted by the Urban Institute, A Pilot Study of Landlord Acceptance of Housing Choice Vouchers, finds high denial rates of Housing Choice Vouchers by landlords, particularly in markets…
