National Low Income Housing Coalition President and CEO Diane Yentel talked about how the coronavirus pandemic was impacting the housing needs of the nation’s poor and homeless.
124 viewsNew York Times economic reporter Conor Dougherty reported on the housing crisis in the San Francisco Bay area.
167 viewsAaron Glantz talked about his book, Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Shady Banks and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions out of Their Homes and…
895 viewsBrian Montgomery, the commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), testified before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development and Insurance about…
253 viewsTreasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, and Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mark Calabria testified at a House Financial Services…
2,183 viewsThe Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee held a hearing on affordable housing access and safety. Housing authority officials and policy experts testified on the importance of…
1,299 viewsHousing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, and the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency outlined their proposals for housing finance…
1,921 viewsThe 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…
1,005 viewsThe 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…
34 viewsPresident 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…
1,576 viewsHousing advocates and researchers testified before the House Financial Services Committee at a hearing on housing discrimination, access, and affordability. Witnesses included…
973 viewsPentagon officials testified before a House Armed Services subcommittee about mismanagement of the military family housing program. Problems discussed included availability and quality of…
996 viewsThe 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…
5,800 viewsThe 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…
186 viewsThe 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…
13,565 viewsThe 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.…
363 viewsHawaiian 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…
56 viewsThe 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…
71 viewsHawaii Office of Planning Director Leo Asuncion discussed affordable housing and homelessness.
204 viewsCommunity 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.…
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