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• Rhode Island Alliance for Healthy Housing: NELCC Conference

  New England Lead Conference Wednesday, November 1, 2017 Nashua Courtyard Marriott and Event Center 2200 Southwood Drive, Nashua, NH

• NLIHC: Leading National Orgs in Education, Civil Rights, Healthcare and More Join in a Campaign to Increase Affordable Housing Across America

  The Opportunity Starts at Home campaign launched today at the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s (NLIHC’s) Housing Policy Forum in Washington, DC. With financial support from the Funders for Housing and Opportunity, NLIHC launched this new multi-sector affordable homes campaign together with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Children’s HealthWatch, Make Room, and the National Alliance to End Homelessness, and with a steering committee that includes Catholic Charities USA, Children’s Defense Fund, Community Catalyst, Food Research and Action Center, NAACP, National Alliance on Mental Illness, National Association of Community Health Centers, National Education Association, and UnidosUS.

• NLIHC: Advocates and Congressional Champions Secure Increased Affordable Housing Funding for 2018

  The final fiscal year (FY) 2018 spending bill – released yesterday, March 21, by Congressional leaders – includes a significant increase in funding for affordable housing and community development programs at HUD and USDA, along with an increase in Low Income Housing Tax Credits and an important reform to the tax program.

• HousingWire: HUD Secretary Ben Carson lays out his plans for affordable housing and regulatory reform

  On Friday, Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson spoke at the National Multifamily Housing Council’s Fall Meeting. In his remarks, he highlighted the issues facing the American housing market and laid out plans to address housing shortages and persistent poverty.

• WhatsUpNewp: HousingWorks Fact Book provides data as conversation shifts to economic benefits of affordable housing

  Businesses and communities benefit when there’s adequate affordable housing for moderate- and low-income individuals and families, a message that affordable housing advocates believe will begin to get those who typically have ignored the issue, to begin taking it seriously.

• The Block Island Times: Housing Board looking ahead

  Pleased by the favorable reception the Planning Board gave the Cherry Hill Lane affordable housing development on May 9, the members of the Block Island Housing Board turned toward implementing that project and others at their May 15 meeting.