NLIHC

WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- On April 17, a house from the Oglala Sioux Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation will be placed on Union Square near the U.S. Capitol to draw attention to the lack of affordable housing and poor housing conditions experienced by American Indians on the Northern Planes and other reservations. The house, built in 1961, was the first federally assisted housing unit built on the Pine Ridge Reservation

WASHINGTON, D.C. - March 22, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- A poll commissioned by the National Low Income Housing Coalition finds that while most Americans do favor the mortgage interest deduction, majorities of Americans support proposals to make the tax break more targeted, and more than half want the savings from reform to be used to end homelessness

WASHINGTON, D.C. - March 19, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) announced the launch of a major new campaign to reshape U.S. tax policy to make affordable housing more available to the nation’s 10.1 million extreme low-income renter households. The centerpiece of the NLIHC campaign is a proposal to modify the mortgage interest deduction for higher income Americans and invest the savings in the National Housing Trust Fund, which was established to serve low-income housing needs. The organization today also released a new national public opinion poll showing broad, bipartisan support for such a proposal

WASHINGTON, D.C. - March 5, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- This annual research report is the source of the often-cited Housing Wage, or the hourly wage that an individual must earn to afford a modest market-rate rental home. Out of Reach highlights this data for every state, metropolitan area and county in the country, and provides additional data about housing affordability such as local wages and housing costs

WASHINGTON, D.C. - February 28, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Millions of Americans will be writing their rent checks tomorrow. But as a new report shows, millions of the lowest income renters will be making rent payments far greater than what they can afford.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - February 26, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Low income renters in the United States are experiencing record rates of unaffordable housing costs, according to a new report from HUD. The report, Worst Case Housing Needs 2011, shows 8.48 million renter households experiencing “worst case housing needs,” a 19% increase since 2009 and a 43.5% increase since 2007

WASHINGTON, D.C. - February 13, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- President Barack Obama, in his State of the Union address to Congress last night, called for several measures to deal with the great income divide in the United States, including a substantial increase in the minimum wage. This is good news and Congress should pass such legislation without delay.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - February 16, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- In 2010, there were 9.8 million extremely low income renter households in the United States, and only 3 million rental homes affordable and available to these households. This shortage of 6.8 million rental units means that only 30 rental homes are affordable and available for every 100 extremely low income renters.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - February 14, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- President Barack Obama’s FY13 budget request, released today, struggles to keep housing programs funded at a basic level while relying on the lowest income Americans to bear part of the burden of deficit reduction.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - February 3, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- In a notice issued today, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Public and Indian Housing clarified and strengthened policy guidance in an effort to curb the decades-long sale and needless destruction of the public housing stock that is affordable to the lowest income people

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 26, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- In the annual State of the Union address last night, President Barack Obama offered his “Blueprint for an America Built to Last,” which centers on reducing the disparities in income and wealth among Americans. He wants people of means to pay their fair share of taxes and he wants to improve the prospects for low and middle income Americans to get good jobs that pay a fair wage. He appealed to Congress to set aside ideological differences and act together on behalf of the American people.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - December 9, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act (PTFA), passed in 2009 and signed into law by President Obama, guarantees that banks and other new owners of rental housing after foreclosure provide at least 90 days’ notice to renters living in foreclosed homes. Before PTFA was in place, tenants could be evicted from their homes with as little as a few days’ notice when the property was foreclosed.

November 3, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- At a hearing today, National Low Income Housing Coalition board member and legal services attorney Charles Elsesser will testify before a House panel in support of an Administration proposal on public housing conversion

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 9, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- On September 7, the House subcommittee in charge of appropriations for housing programs released its draft budget, which if enacted would have both positive and negative consequences for America’s lowest income people.

Washington, D.C. - September 7, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Last week, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded a total of $122 million to five communities for the redevelopment of distressed public and assisted housing.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 25, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- A coalition of 45 national organizations sent a letter to President Barack Obama’s domestic policy and economic teams today asking that the Administration include at least $10 billion for the National Housing Trust Fund in the President’s jobs-creation plan.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 19, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- This is the message of 40 housing and community development organizations in a letter to the members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, known as the “super committee.” This Congressional committee is charged with achieving further deficit reduction as part of the debt ceiling agreement enacted in early August.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 13, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- In a vote of 18-14, the Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises subcommittee of the House Finance Committee voted yesterday to eliminate the National Housing Trust Fund.

Washington, D.C. - July 12, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- On the morning of July 11, the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and the GSEs of the House Financial Services Committee will vote on the latest series of bills to dismantle Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- A rural appropriations bill passed in the House of Representatives today by a vote of 217 to 203 would result in severe hardship for low income people in rural America. This bill, H.R. 2112, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food & Drug Administration and Related Agencies Appropriation Act of 2012, would cut funding to three crucial housing assistance programs.