President Donald Trump’s proposed budget shows in stark relief just how entirely and brutally he will break his promises to those “forgotten Americans” who elected him. To increase the military…
A report by Cheryl Young at Trulia, Housing Diversity: What Home Values Say About Inequality, finds a strong correlation between the unevenness of housing values across America’s 100 largest…
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ (CBPP) updated Chart Book: Federal Housing Spending is Poorly Matched to Need continues to show how federal housing expenditures disproportionately benefit…
Note: Low income households have income at or less than 80 percent of area median income.
Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. (2017). Interactive Graphic: Highlighting the 3 Out of 4…
NLIHC released its new report, The GAP: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, on March 2. The report finds a shortage of 7.4 million affordable and available rental homes for extremely low income (ELI)…
“Cost Burden” means spending more than 30% of income on housing and utilities. “Severe Cost Burden” means spending more than 50% of income on housing and utilities. “Extremely Low…
Source: Joint Committee on Taxation. (2017). Estimates of federal tax expenditures for fiscal years 2016-2020. Washington, DC: Author. Retrieved from https://www.jct.gov/publications.html?func=…
Source: Dawkins, C. & Miller, M. (2017). The characteristics and unmet housing program needs of disabled HUD-assisted households. Housing Policy Debate.
Soon after the start of the 115th Congress, Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) reintroduced legislation they sought to advance in previous Congresses. The “Local Zoning…
