Coronavirus Updates – May 31, 2022
National Updates U.S. Department of the Treasury The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) updated its ERA Portal on May 20 to allow grantees to directly input their requests for reallocated…
Disaster Housing Recovery Updates – May 31, 2022
FEMA An audit by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General found that FEMA did not collect information necessary for the accurate review of erroneous distributions…
Senator Hirono and Colleagues Introduce Bill to Expand Access to Housing, Health Care, Nutrition Assistance, and Other Supports for Immigrants
Senators Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Patty Murray (D-WA), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Ed Markey (D-MA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Alex Padilla (D-CA…
Recording of May 23 National HoUSed Campaign Call Now Available
On NLIHC’s most recent (May 23) national call for the “HoUSed: Universal, Stable, Affordable Housing” campaign, we shared the latest updates from Capitol Hill, discussed a new report from PolicyLink…
Campaign Releases New Podcast Episode on the Role of Landlords in Housing Discrimination
The Opportunity Starts at Home (OSAH) campaign has released a new podcast episode, “The Role of Landlords in Housing Discrimination.” The episode – the thirty-fifth in OSAH’s podcast series –…
Join Today’s Our Homes, Our Votes: 2022 Webinar on Voter Registration Messaging, Events, and Door-to-Door Canvassing
NLIHC’s Our Homes, Our Votes: 2022 webinar series features experts with frontline election experience who walk through every step of voter and candidate engagement activities and support housing…
Become an Our Homes, Our Votes Affiliate!
Our Homes, Our Votes affiliates are nonpartisan organizations that are formally identified with the campaign and committed to carrying out its goals. Tenant associations, homeless service providers,…
Public Housing Agencies Increasingly Rely on Programs Other than Public Housing
The Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC) has released a new report, “Beyond Public Housing: How Public Housing Authorities are Transforming the Way They Preserve and Expand…
New Research Finds Public Housing Agencies File Nearly 6% of Evictions
A new report published in Cities, “Eviction from Public Housing in the United States,” highlights trends in eviction filing rates among public housing agencies (PHAs). Using data from 1,243 PHAs…
NLIHC Releases New Podcast Episode on the Intersections of Housing and Healthcare
NLIHC has released a new episode in our podcast series “The Home Front,” which focuses on housing policy priorities, advocacy efforts by NLIHC and our partners, and other important topics. The new…
Join Upcoming Tenant Talk Live Webinar for Renters and Resident Leaders on the Importance of Making Significant Federal Investments in Public Housing
NLIHC will host “Tenant Talk Live” – a webinar with and for renter and resident leaders – next Monday, June 6, at 6 pm ET. Advocates from the Human Rights Watch, Save Section 9, and NLIHC will come…