Take Action to Stop Harmful Amendments to the FY24 Spending Bill and Protect Housing Investments!
The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate are taking steps to advance their draft Transportation, Housing and Urban Development spending bills for fiscal year (FY) 2024. The Senate may vote on a…
Recap of 10/10 National HoUSed Campaign Call
In the most recent (October 10) call for the national HoUSed campaign, we heard from Eric Tars of the National Homelessness Law Center (NHLC) about NHLC’s Human Right to Housing Report Card.…
New Report on 2022 Kentucky Floods Highlights Impact of Disasters on Affordable Housing
A report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland on flooding in Kentucky in July 2022 finds that floods exacerbated affordable housing shortages and pre-existing weaknesses in local labor markets.…
Register for Upcoming Our Homes, Our Votes Webinar: Organizing to Win Affordable Homes at the Ballot Box
Join NLIHC’s nonpartisan Our Homes, Our Votes campaign for the second installment of a two-part webinar series on ballot measures as a pathway toward housing justice. The second webinar, “Housing Is…
Large Landlords More Likely to Engage in Serial Eviction Filing
A new study published in Socius, “Every Month Like Clockwork? Patterns and Prevalence of Serial Eviction Filing among Landlords,” finds that landlords with larger portfolios are more likely than…
Investigation Finds More Than 2,000 State-Funded Apartments Vacant in Massachusetts Despite Lengthy Waitlists
An investigation by Massachusetts public radio station WBUR and ProPublica finds that nearly 2,300 public housing units in Massachusetts are vacant despite a waitlist of 184,000 people. Published in…
Tenant Talk Live on Hiatus in October; Participate in Feedback Survey!
“Tenant Talk Live” – a webinar series geared toward tenants and resident leaders – will be on hiatus during the month of October. In the meantime, we invite past attendees to participate in a survey…
Black Adults with Children Experience Highest Eviction Filing Rates
Source: The Eviction Lab. (2023). Who is evicted in America. Princeton, NJ: Author. Retrieved from https://evictionlab.org/who-is-evicted-in-america/.
NLIHC in the News for the Week of October 8
The following are some of the news stories to which NLIHC contributed during the week of October 8: “As Chelsea Demo Plans Move Ahead, A Look Back to NYCHA’s Brooklyn Razing” City Limits, October…
NLIHC Seeks Housing Campaign Coordinator
NLIHC seeks a housing campaign coordinator to join our Opportunity Starts at Home (OSAH) campaign. The housing campaign coordinator will work closely with the OSAH campaign director to build and…
Where to Find Us – October 16
Housing Is a Human Right Orange County General Meeting: Housing First – Virtual, October 16 (Courtney Cooperman) Habitat for Humanity of the Greater La Crosse Region Advocacy Committee Meeting –…