Affordable housing news 2/5/16

CBPP: House unanimously passes bill improving housing programs

CBPP: 2017 budget gives lawmakers a renewed chance to reduce homelessness

CSSP: New award to help accelerate positive change for women and girls of color

Governing: While homeless veterans get housing, the rest are left in the cold

Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies: The future of renting among older adults

HUD: First public housing units to be connected to gigabit internet

The HUDdle: A big housing problem requires clever, collaborative solutions

Motherboard: Google's free gigabit internet for public housing no replacement for reform

NCSHA: House unanimously passes rental assistance reform bill

The New Yorker (via CSSP): Forced out: For many poor Americans, eviction never ends

Next City: 10 metros where rising rent is a big threat to America's seniors

NHC: In 1952, then-senator Hubert H. Humphrey gave a speech to a National Housing Conference convening

NLIHC: Congress passes housing reform bill with rare bipartisan support

NLIHC: Rent increases forecasted to slow down in 2016, but not for low-income renters

Rooflines: The real rental housing issue

Rooflines: Why the presidential race ignores urban America

San Francisco Magazine (via Planetizen): Welcome to the strange politics of affordable housing in San Francisco