Washington, DC, Sept. 18, 2019 – The new White House Council of Economic Advisers’ report on homelessness in America combines cherry-picked data, faulty analysis and wildly inaccurate diagnosing of both the problem and its solutions. In addition to getting the fundamentals of homelessness wrong, their policy prescriptions completely miss the mark. Deregulation, increased policing and […]
National Low Income Housing Coalition
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Nearly Every U.S. County Lacks Adequate Supply of Affordable and Available Homes for Low-Income Renters
Washington, DC, June 18, 2019 – The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) released its 2019 Out of Reach report today. The report concluded that a full-time worker needs to earn an hourly wage of $22.96 on average to afford a modest, two-bedroom rental home in the U.S. This Housing Wage for a two-bedroom home […]
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New Report: Shortage of 7 Million Apartments for the Nation’s Lowest-Income Renters
March 18, 2019 – NLIHC released its annual report, The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, which finds a shortage of seven million affordable and available rental homes for extremely low-income renters, those with household incomes at or below the poverty level or 30% of their area median income. The report calls for increasing investments […]