President Biden Signs Executive Order to Advance Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities through the Federal Government
President Biden signed an Executive Order (EO) on February 16 aimed at strengthening the federal government’s ability to address barriers to equal opportunity faced by underserved communities. The EO…
NLIHC Briefs Provide Summaries of AFFH Equity Plan and Community Engagement Requirements
NLIHC has prepared two briefs providing initial overviews of the proposed Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulation provisions regarding the Equity Plan and the Community Engagement and…
HUD Awarded $1.2 Million in Civil Money Penalty due to Housing Assistance Payment Contract Violation
HUD will receive approximately $1.2 million in a civil money penalty after an administrative law judge (ALJ) for HUD’s Office of Hearing and Appeals ordered the penalty to be paid. Apex Waukegan LLC…
Report Shows Connecticut’s Right-to-Counsel Program to Be Effective at Preventing Evictions
A new report finds that Connecticut’s Eviction Right to Counsel Program has been successful in diverting and minimizing eviction filings within the state since it began one year ago. Right to counsel…
Communities Leverage State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds to Recover from Pandemic and Invest in Housing Affordability
The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) issued a fact sheet on February 14 highlighting how county governments are using State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) to recover from the…
Recap of 2/13 National HoUSed Campaign Call
In our most recent (February 13) national “HoUSed: Universal, Stable, Affordable Homes” campaign call, we discussed the outlook for the 118th Congress with U.S. House of Representatives Financial…
HUD Announces Agreement with State of Louisiana to Resolve Repayment Obligations for 3,300 Homeowners Impacted by Hurricane Katrina
Road Home program, Rita HUD announced on February 16 that the agency had reached an agreement with the State of Louisiana to cease repayment actions for over 3,300 disaster-impacted homeowners…
New Research Suggests People Experiencing Homelessness Face Greater Risk of Death
A new report published by the Minnesota Department of Health in partnership with the Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute (HHRI) finds that people who experience homelessness experience a death…
Report Shows Universal Access to Counsel Reduced Non-Answer Rates and Subsequent Default Judgments in New York Eviction Cases
A new report from the NYU Furman Center, “Half the Battle is Just Showing Up: Non-Answers and Default Judgments in Non-Payment Eviction Cases across New York State,” documents the frequency of tenant…
Major Cities and Predominantly Urban CoCs Faced Largest Increases in Unsheltered Homelessness and Chronic Homelessness between 2020 and 2022
Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, "The 2022 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report Part 1: Point-In-Time Estimates of Homelessness," December 2022, bit.ly/3WNSERq
Federal Court Upholds New York’s Rent Stabilization Law; Plaintiffs Plan Appeal to Supreme Court
The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on February 6 affirmed New York’s decades-old rent stabilization law, striking down lawsuits against New York City and the state filed by landlord trade…