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News Round-Up: No New Funding
In Massachusetts, state lawmakers and social service organizations are working to improve services available to victims of domestic violence. According to this story, incidences of domestic violence are on the rise in the U.S., with 1.03 million incidents reported in 1998, and 7 million reported in 2010. While better, more coordinated services are planned, shelter Continue reading
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How to Use NLIHC’s New Congressional District Profiles
This past week, NLIHC updated our Congressional District Profiles. The profiles are an important tool for housing advocacy, updated throughout the year as new data becomes available. The most recent update incorporates newly available five-year Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS) data. This update also reorganized the profiles, making it even easier to find the data Continue reading
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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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National Housing Trust Fund: How It Works
We talk a lot about the National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF) on this blog, but don’t always give you the nitty gritty details of the program. Today’s post delves into those details with an excerpt from an article on the NHTF from the Advocates’ Guide. The purpose of the National Housing Trust Fund is to Continue reading
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Talk of the Town: What our leaders need to hear.
From DC to LA, people have been talking about housing problems all week. On Tuesday, the U.S. Census Bureau announced that in 2010, median household income declined and the nation’s poverty rate increased 14.3%. In 2010, there were 46.2 million people in poverty, making 2010’s figures the fourth consecutive increase and the largest number in Continue reading
On the Home Front 