Whistleblowers Reveal HUD’s Undercutting of the Fair Housing and Civil Rights Laws, NLIHC Joins National Fair Housing Alliance in Denouncing HUD’s Fair Housing Failures—Take Action to Defend Fair ...

NLIHC’s fall 2025 edition of Tenant Talk, Navigating Funding Cuts: Empowering Tenants to Shape Policy, focuses on the federal ...

An article recently published by the journal PLOS Climate, “Exploring implementation of disaster risk management strategies by public housing authorities: A national survey,” examines how the uptake ...

Recap notes that OCAF amounts have been insufficient in recent years due to rising operating costs. Therefore, to help address this shortfall, a RAD property may request a one-time “Alternative OCF” ...

In July 2025, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs introduced the “Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream (ROAD) to Housing Act of 2025,” the first comprehensive bipartisan ...

On July 17, NLIHC released its annual Out of Reach report, which compares the wages people earn and the price of modest rental housing in every state, metropolitan area, and county in the U.S. The ...

In July, congressional Republicans used reconciliation to enact the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA; HR 1). Because of the rules of reconciliation, the bill did not impact funding for HUD programs ...

So far in 2025, two issues have dominated Congress’s attention: appropriations and reconciliation. These are two separate processes that result in two different forms of legislation: Appropriations is ...

This summer, Congress passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” (H.R. 1) a massive piece of legislation that includes tax reform, defense and immigration enforcement spending, and cuts to vital safety ...

In March 2020, a close friend of mine was tragically murdered by her husband, who had been her abuser. She was an exceptionally compassionate individual, having recently donated a kidney to her ...

Congress has until October 1—the beginning of fiscal year 2026 (FY26)—to enact a final FY26 appropriations bill for HUD programs. Without either a new bill or a CR to extend funding for a specific ...