Join the Protecting Immigrant Families Coalition in Urging Congress to “LIFT the BAR”
The Protecting Immigrant Families Coalition (PIF) is circulating a sign-on letter for national, state, and local organizations urging Congress to eliminate eligibility restrictions and barriers to…
Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick Introduces Federal Disaster Housing Stability Act of 2023
Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) introduced the “Federal Disaster Housing Stability Act of 2023” in the U.S. House of Representatives on May 11. The bill includes several measures…
New Census Data Reveal Voter Turnout Disparities in 2022 Midterm Elections
The U.S. Census Bureau published its survey data on voter registration and turnout in the November 2022 midterm elections on May 2. The data reveal persistent gaps in voter turnout rates between…
Senators Shaheen, Smith, and King Introduce Rural Housing Preservation Bill
Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Tina Smith (D-MN), and Angus King (I-ME) introduced the “Strategy and Investment in Rural Housing Preservation Act” (S.1490) in the U.S. Senate. The bill would…
Senate Banking Committee Moves Forward on Appointments of Solomon Greene and David Uejio to HUD Leadership Roles
The U.S. Senate’s Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs voted on May 11 to move forward with the appointments of Solomon Greene and David Uejio as assistant secretaries at HUD. The Senate…
HUD Publishes Final NSPIRE Rule
HUD published the final rule implementing the National Standards for Physical Inspection of Real Estate (NSPIRE) in the Federal Register on May 11. A proposed rule was published on January 13, 2021 (…
Join Today’s (May 15) “Tenant Talk Live” Webinar on Engaging Legislative Bodies and Holding Federal Agencies Accountable
NLIHC will host the next session of “Tenant Talk Live” – a webinar with and for tenant and resident leaders – today (May 15) at 6 pm ET. During the webinar, NLIHC staff will join the call to discuss…
New Findings Show Californians without Stable Housing Make Health Tradeoffs
A study published by the University of California, Los Angeles’s Center for Health Policy Research finds that Californians experiencing housing instability during the pandemic were twice as likely as…
Pandemic-Era Policy Interventions Reduced Eviction Filings by Almost 60%
An article published in the Russell Sage Foundation of Social Sciences, “Protecting the Most Vulnerable: Policy Response and Eviction Filing Patterns during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” examines the…
Who Are Extremely Low-Income Renters?
Source: NLIHC tabulations of 2021 ACS PUMS.
NLIHC in the News for the Week of May 7
The following are some of the news stories to which NLIHC contributed during the week of May 7: “How finding a home in America became so absurdly expensive” The Guardian, May 10 at: https://bit.ly…