Policy Focus
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Independence Day
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That Continue reading
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Save crucial government programs with just one click.
With all the talk about the work Congress is doing to decide on next year’s appropriations for HUD and rural housing, it’s easy to forget that there is another big budget issue looming: sequestration. As we wrote in Memo to Members in January, The Budget Control Act of 2011 required Congress to form a bipartisan committee Continue reading
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We need the facts – We need the ACS.
Many Americans probably wonder how decisions are made about what federal, state, and local funds will be spent on. At all levels of government, one of the most useful tools for understanding the needs of a community and for determining how funds are spent is the American Community Survey (ACS). At NLIHC and throughout the Continue reading
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What Can FHFA Learn from the Banks’ Big Mistakes?
The National Fair Housing Alliance’s report, The Banks Are Back, Our Neighborhoods Are Not: Discrimination in the Maintenance and Marketing of REO Properties has people talking over at the National Low Income Housing Coalition. It’s not just the report’s finding that bank or “real estate-owned” (REO) properties in white neighborhoods are much better maintained and Continue reading
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Blameless
The foreclosure crisis has been devastating to homeowners and to communities. With the first waves of foreclosure, we saw families with subprime mortgages losing their homes. More and more, it’s long-term unemployment that is forcing homeowners into foreclosure. Less publicized in all of this has been the affect of foreclosure on renters. Landlords are defaulting Continue reading
On the Home Front 