Memo: Take Action on FY26 “Minibus” Spending Package; Comment on “Public Charge” Proposed Rule; Register for Housing Policy Forum; and More ...

Washington, D.C. - On Monday, December 8, 2025, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development was forced to pull back a dangerous new policy hours before a hearing, causing another in a string ...

The final Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Review Council meeting was scheduled for yesterday, December 11, but was unexpectedly cancelled without prior notification. The FEMA Review Council ...

On November 25, 54 House Democrats—led by Ranking Member Maxine Waters of the House Financial Services Committee—sent a letter urging HUD Secretary Scott Turner to reverse the department’s recent ...

Note: Mutually exclusive categories are applied in the following order: senior, disabled, in the labor force, enrolled in school, single-adult caregiver of a child under 7 or of a household member ...

Congressional appropriators are still working to reach a final agreement on a fiscal year (FY) 2026 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) spending bill, which funds HUD’s vital ...

The following are some of the news stories to which NLIHC contributed during the weeks of November 24 and December 1: “Santa Fe tackles rental rates with first-in-US minimum wage approach,” Associated ...

New research published in Housing Policy Debate titled “Rent and Eviction Filing at Enterprise Backed Rental Properties” examines whether financing from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (“the Enterprises”) ...

Monday afternoon, the National Low Income Housing Coalition formally joined a federal lawsuit as a co-plaintiff, alongside Crossroads Rhode Island, Youth Pride, Inc., as well as the County of Santa ...

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) uses the “public charge” test to determine admission into the U.S. or approval for a green card. An individual is deemed a “public charge” if they ...