Where to Find Us – May 13
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months: Colorado NAHRO Conference, Vail, CO, May 15 New York Association for…
NLIHC’s Diane Yentel Testifies Before Congress on Housing as Infrastructure
The House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on April 30 to assess the infrastructure needs of America’s housing stock. Witnesses included Diane Yentel, NLIHC president and CEO; Adrianne…
New Swag and other Resources Now Available for Your Housing Week of Action Event!
New shirts, hats, buttons, and other resources are now available for your Our Homes, Our Voices National Housing Week of Action events and activities taking place the week of May 30 to June 5. People…
Trump Administration Proposes Rule to Evict Undocumented Immigrants from Public Housing
The Trump administration may publish a proposed rule in the Federal Register this week that would prohibit ineligible immigrants from living in HUD-subsidized housing. Under the rule, HUD will…
Join NLIHC Webinar on HUD’s Proposed Section 3 Rule, May 8
HUD proposed long-awaited updates to the 1994 interim Section 3 rule in early April. NLIHC invites residents of all HUD-subsidized housing programs for a webinar on the subsidized housing features of…
Voters Demand Action on Affordable Housing in Iowa - and Nationally
As she attends presidential town halls throughout Iowa, Lauren Johnson from the Polk County Housing Trust Fund finds affordable housing is top-of-mind for voters. Voters want to know where the…
Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition Provides Recommendations for Equitable Access to Assistance
The Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition (DHRC) – an NLIHC-led group of over 800 national, state, and local organizations – sent a letter on April 30 to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)…
HUD OIG Investigates Whether Trump Administration Slowed Relief to Puerto Rico
The HUD Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is investigating, as part of a wider inspection of HUD’s disaster grant administration, whether the Trump Administration slowed hurricane relief to…
Additional Disaster Housing Recovery Updates – May 6, 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 4/…
New Study Examines Public Housing Authorities Operating in the Private Market
A new study published in Housing Policy Debate, “Public Housing Authorities in the Private Market,” examines the factors that impact the involvement of public housing authorities (PHAs) in…
Fact of the Week: Expansion of Housing Vouchers Would Have Greatest Impact on Reducing Child Poverty Among Eight Possible Interventions
The proposals’ combined impact is a 57.1% reduction in the supplemental child poverty rate, less than the sum of the individual policy changes because the same child can benefit from more than one…