NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel sent a letter on behalf of the NLIHC-led Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition (DHRC) to FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell on May 31 calling on the agency to waive…
The U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously approved the “Community Disaster Mitigation Zones Act” on March 30. Introduced by Committee Chairman Gary Peters (D-MI…
National Updates
Department of the Treasury
The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) released new data on reallocations of the initial appropriation of emergency rental assistance (ERA1). The…
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
HUD announced on March 22 the allocation of nearly $3 billion in Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds to help…
National Updates
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
HUD announced on March 11 the award of nearly $70 million in Indian Community Development Block Grant-American Rescue Plan (ICDBG-…
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
HUD’s Disaster Recovery Grant Reporting (DRGR) System pages have been updated to include several new DRGR Public Action Plan resources for grantees…
NLIHC and eight other national housing and civil rights organizations sent a letter to HUD Secretary Marcia L. Fudge on March 16 urging HUD to comprehensively address a recent finding by the agency’s…
A new analysis published by the Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) at Harvard University examines the exposure of rental housing to natural hazards. Using data from FEMA’s National Risk Index (…
Representatives of the housing sector, including NLIHC, sent a letter to President Biden on March 9 asking that he convene a President’s Council on Housing Affordability. The letter – cosigned by…
National Updates
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
HUD announced on March 4 that it is awarding over $2.4 million in “American Rescue Plan Act” funding to 11 HUD Fair Housing…
Flooding
BuzzFeed News examines the growing risk of basement flooding as the shortage of affordable housing pushes more renters below ground. Officials across the country are looking to convert more…