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The Institute of the Black World 21st Century hosted a national town hall meeting on gentrification at the New Jersey Institute for Technology in Newark. Speakers included economist…

The Oregonian reporter Elliott Njus talked about Oregon becoming the first state to enact statewide rent control. The law also limits no-fault evictions of tenants. The Oregon House and…

President Trump gave remarks in the Oval Office and signed an executive order on reducing barriers to affordable housing. Following the signing, he took questions from reporters on the…

Housing advocates and researchers testified before the House Financial Services Committee at a hearing on housing discrimination, access, and affordability. Witnesses included…

Pentagon officials testified before a House Armed Services subcommittee about mismanagement of the military family housing program. Problems discussed included availability and quality of…

The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing with the secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force as well as the military branch service chiefs about housing conditions for service…

The Brookings Institution hosted a forum on evidence-based policymaking at the state and local level. This portion of the event included a panel discussion with economics professors and…

The Senate Armed Services subcommittees on Readiness and Management and Personnel held a joint hearing to examine the state of privatized military housing around the country following…

The Democratic mayors of San Francisco and Philadelphia were the featured speakers at a discussion on housing and homelessness at the 2019 winter meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.…

Hawaiian homes are being converted into vacation rentals, raising questions about the permissibly of the practice in the state and it’s economic impact on housing costs. Honolulu Mayor Kirk…

The island of Oahu has a population of about 1 million with half of those residents concentrated within Hawaii’s capital city Honolulu. Civil Beat staff writer Marcel Honoré explained how the growing…

Hawaii Office of Planning Director Leo Asuncion discussed affordable housing and homelessness.

Community leaders, historians, and policymakers participated in a discussion on the 50th anniversary of Federal Housing Act and its aim to prevent discrimination in the housing industry.…

Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro talked about federal housing policy.

National Fair Housing Alliance’s Lisa Rice discussed the recent move by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson to suspend a fair-housing rule put in place under the Obama…

Attorney General Jeff Sessions made a civil rights initiative announcement on the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson…

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson spoke briefly at a Habitat for Humanity Washington, D.C., build site in where he and other federal workers were volunteering during…

Ethan Epstein talked about his recent Politico Magazine article on how San Francisco reformed its public housing system. The piece is titled, “How San Francisco Saved Its Public Housing By Getting Rid of…

Telephone lines were open for viewer comments on the question, “Is affordable housing a problem in your community?”

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on increasing access to affordable housing. According to rental trends over $15 million people nationwide will need to spend 50 percen of their…