Senate Returns from August Recess Today with FY2023 Appropriations Deadline Looming – Take Action!
The U.S. Senate returns from August recess today. However, with the U.S. House of Representatives remaining in recess until September 13 and a long way to go before reaching a bipartisan, bicameral…
HUD Publishes FY2023 Fair Market Rents (FMRs)
HUD announced in the Federal Register on September 1 the publication of the fiscal year (FY) 2023 Fair Market Rents (FMRs). In an accompanying press release, HUD stated that FMRs will increase by an…
Texas GLO Ignores HUD Deadline to Negotiate about Civil Rights Violations Resulting from Mitigation Plan
Nearly five years to the day after Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the Southeastern Texas coast, the Texas General Land Office (GLO) failed to meet a deadline on August 27 to respond to a request…
Disaster Housing Recovery Updates – September 6, 2022
Congressional and Executive Action Representative Al Green (D-TX) spoke to ABC13 in Houston regarding the “Reforming Disaster Recovery Act,” which would permanently authorize HUD’s long-term…
Submit Nominations for 2023 Housing Leadership Awards by September 9!
NLIHC is accepting nominations for our 2023 Housing Leadership Awards recipients. Every year, NLIHC celebrates leaders in the fight for affordable housing by honoring three individuals or…
OSAH State Grantees in Action: Spotlight on Colorado and Idaho
The Opportunity Starts at Home campaign supports 21 state campaigns that build state-level multi-sector coalitions and leverage those partnerships to advance federal housing policy goals. State…
Join Today’s (September 6) Our Homes, Our Votes Webinar on Ballot Measures and Housing
The Our Homes, Our Votes: 2022 webinar series features experts with frontline election experience to walk through every step of voter and candidate engagement activities and support housing…
Join September’s “Tenant Talk Live” Webinar for Renters and Resident Leaders on the Community Land Trust Model
NLIHC will host a session of “Tenant Talk Live” – a webinar with and for renter and resident leaders – on Monday, September 12, at 6 pm ET. During the webinar, NLIHC staff will be joined by tenants…
New Webinar Will Help Advocates Use Census Data to Track Poverty, Income, and Health
The Coalition on Human Needs (CHN) will host a webinar on September 8 intended to help attendees learn to use newly released census data to track poverty, income, and health. The webinar, “Pandemic…
Ongoing Homelessness and Late-Life Homelessness Associated with Increased Risk of Death among Older Adults
A new study from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, San Francisco, “Factors Associated with Mortality among Homeless Older Adults in California,” assessed…
Evictions Cause Increases in Residential Mobility, Homelessness, and Hospital Use and Decreases in Financial Health
The National Bureau of Economic Research released a new paper, “Eviction and Poverty in American Cities,” evaluating the consequences of evictions for tenants in two urban areas: Cook County, IL, and…