Memo: Brown Resident Leader Honorees; Capitol Hill Day Prep Feb 10; Senate Passes HUD Funding Bill; Oppose Elimination of Fair Hsg Regs; and More ...

On January 23, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) concluded its review of two anticipated HUD rulemakings that would directly impact HUD tenants if implemented. The first ...

Senators passed by a vote of 71 to 29 the final fiscal year (FY) 2026 Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development (THUD) appropriations bill on January 30 as part of a massive spending package that ...

The National Low Income Housing Coalition is dedicated to achieving racially and socially equitable public policy that ensures people with the lowest incomes have quality homes that are accessible and ...

On January 23, the White House issued an executive order extending the tenure of the FEMA Review Council so that the council will serve until March 25, 2026. The review council’s executive mandate was ...

The NLIHC-led Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition delivered a letter on January 29 to Senators John Thune (R-SD) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY), urging a pause on U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ...

A new study published in JAMA Network Open, “Eviction, Collective Efficacy, and Firearm Violence in Chicago” explores whether evictions are associated with higher rates of neighborhood firearm ...

On January 23, HUD announced that it is requiring public housing agencies (PHAs) and owners of HUD-assisted housing to review potential inconsistencies in tenant immigration records. According to the ...

The Opportunity Starts at Home (OSAH) campaign joined the “Making Your Own Spotlight – Lessons from the Field” webinar on January 22, hosted by Housing Action Illinois, an OSAH campaign State Partner.

Join NLIHC in celebrating our 2026 Loraine Brown Resident Leader Award honorees: Kennetha Patterson and Linda Lee Soderstrom. These exceptional leaders will be recognized at NLIHC’s Annual Housing ...

HUD has proposed eliminating the agency’s 2013 “Fair Housing Act” (FHA) disparate impact regulations via a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) published January 14 (see Memo, 1/20/26). This proposal ...

People of color are significantly more likely than white people to experience evictions and homelessness in the United States, the result of centuries of structural racism that continues today, that ...