NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel sent a letter to HUD on November 5 regarding the pending release of new agency policy regarding long-term recovery funding. HUD’s Community Development Block…
HUD announced approval an allocation of more than $2 billion in long-term disaster recovery funds to 10 states struck by disasters last year. These funds constitute a little less than half of the $5…
National Updates
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
As part of the CDBG CARES (CDBG-CV) Act Webinar Series, HUD will hold a webinar on November 17 from 1-2:30 pm ET on co-managing…
Federal Response
Congress
Legislation introduced by Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Alex Padilla (D-CA) to reallocate unspent COVID-19 relief funds towards infrastructure and disaster relief passed…
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee passed five bills to reform the disaster recovery system at a session on October 27. The bills address separate elements of how FEMA responds and…
The House Committee on Homeland Security and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure held hearings on disaster recovery on October 26 and 27, respectively. Both featured discussion…
Chris Smith, director of the Individual Assistance Division at the Office of Response and Recovery, Recovery Directorate at FEMA, and additional members of the FEMA Individual Assistance team met…
ERASE Updates
NLIHC announced the launch of the End Rental Arrears to Stop Evictions (ERASE) webpage. The webpage includes resources for tenants, state and local housing advocates, policymakers,…
Federal Updates
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Are you a housing provider in or near a disaster-impacted area? If you have vacant units, HUD wants to know! The agency is…
A recent article in Housing Policy Debate, “A Perfect Storm? Disasters and Evictions,” is one of the first studies to examine the relationship between disasters and evictions. The study combines a…
In a major win for disaster recovery advocates, the Senate Appropriations Committee’s 2022 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) bill includes the “Reforming Disaster Recovery Act.”…
National Updates
Research and Advocacy
An article in the New England Journal of Medicine discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted eviction as a public health crisis and exacerbated the…
