Honor COHHIO’s Bill Faith, 2020 Cushing Dolbeare Lifetime Service Awardee, with a Contribution to NLIHC
NLIHC will honor Bill Faith, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio (COHHIO) and former NLIHC board chair, with the 2020 Cushing Dolbeare Lifetime Service Award,…
Moderators Fail to Ask about Affordable Housing at Iowa Presidential Candidate Debate; Rep Delaney Tours “Undesign the Redline”
Prior to six presidential hopefuls taking to the stage for a nationally televised debate in Des Moines, IA last week, more than 1,000 organizations, in partnership with NLIHC and the Polk County…
HUD Announces Completion of Grant Agreement with Puerto Rico to Make Nearly $8.3 Billion in CDBG Disaster Mitigation Funds Available and Issues Notice Containing Conditions
After many months of delay, HUD Secretary Ben Carson formally announced a grant agreement with Puerto Rico on January 16, making an additional $8.285 billion in Community Development Block Grant…
Appropriations Committee Announces Bill to Provide $3 Billion in Emergency Funding to Puerto Rico
The House Appropriations Committee unveiled on January 16, a supplemental Bipartisan Budget Act bill authored by Representative Nita Lowey (D-NY) to provide emergency assistance to Puerto Rico in the…
Additional Disaster Housing Recovery Updates, January 21, 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 1/13). Puerto Rico…
Report Examines Housing Accessibility for Older Adults with Extremely Low-Incomes
A report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University (JCHS), Accessibility Features for Older Households in Subsidized Housing, examines the accessibility of the federally…
Study Compares Market-Based Rental Subsidy Programs in the Netherlands, UK, and U.S.
An article in Housing Studies, “The Use of Markets in Housing Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Housing Subsidy Programs,” compares market-based, demand-side rental housing subsidy programs in the…
Low-Income Renters Less Likely than High-Income Renters to Live in Single-Family Homes
Source: NLIHC tabulations of 2018 ACS PUMS data.
Ending Homelessness in New Mexico Considered Feasible with State Resources
The resources needed to end homelessness in New Mexico are within the state’s financial means according to a report released on January 13 by the New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness (NMCEH), an…
NLIHC in the News for the Week of January 12
NLIHC in the News for the Week of January 12 The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of January 12: “Homelessness Up Nationwide After Spikes in…
NLIHC Welcomes Policy Intern Tyra Reed
NLIHC is pleased to welcome Tyra Reed as the Coalition’s 2020 spring policy intern. Tyra earned her Bachelor of Arts in psychology and public health from the University of Minnesota in 2018. She is…