National Updates
Advocacy
NLIHC’s Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition (DHRC) will continue to push for a broad array of resources and protections, including emergency rental…
The NLIHC-led Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition is convening and supporting disaster-impacted communities to ensure that federal disaster recovery efforts reach all impacted households,…
Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) will join today’s (September 28) national call on coronavirus, disasters, housing, and homelessness from 2:30-4 pm ET. Eviction Lab’s Peter Hepburn will present the…
Join NLIHC Vice President for Public Policy Sarah Saadian and Rasheedah Phillips, a senior advocate resources and training attorney at the Shriver Center, for a discussion on “Preventing Evictions…
The Puerto Rico Working Group of the Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition (DHRC) – an NLIHC-led group of over 850 local, state, and national groups working to reform disaster recovery – sent a letter…
During the most recent national call on coronavirus, disasters, housing, and homelessness, Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) provided updates on the state of play for the next coronavirus relief bill,…
National Updates
Department of Agriculture
The USDA on September 21 announced the extension of Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)…
The NLIHC-led Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition is convening and supporting disaster-impacted communities to ensure that federal disaster recovery efforts reach all impacted households,…
Dear Readers,
It has been quite the summer. Our last issue in late spring focused on the COVID-19 pandemic and how it would affect low-income renters. Since then, the pandemic has raged around the…
NLIHC and the National Housing Law Project (NHLP) sent a letter on September 15 to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, HUD Secretary Ben Carson, Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue…
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) launched on September 14 a Final 30 Days Push campaign to help eligible people apply for their Economic Impact Payments (EIPs), better known as “…
Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) will join today’s (September 21) national call on coronavirus, disasters, housing, and homelessness from 2:30-4 pm ET. Jim Baker of Private Equity Stakeholder Project and…