HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing Programs (Multifamily) sent an email to stakeholders on May 10 announcing a new federal subsidy program – the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) – to help HUD-…
The New Orleans City Council unanimously passed a right-to-counsel (RTC) ordinance on May 5, mandating that any person at risk of losing their home in eviction court has the right to an attorney.…
Our Homes, Our Votes is NLIHC’s nonpartisan campaign to increase voter participation among low-income renters and to educate candidates about housing solutions. The Our Homes, Our Votes: 2022…
The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) submitted a letter supporting the “Eviction Crisis Act” – a bill that would create new tools to help end evictions – to Senators Michael Bennet (D-…
The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate were back in session this week to tackle a broad legislative agenda, including negotiations over a fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget and the development of an…
On our most recent (May 9) national call for the “HoUSed: Universal, Stable, Affordable Housing” campaign, we received news from Capitol Hill, learned about trends in the criminalization of…
National Updates
Department of the Treasury
The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) released on May 2 the March ERA report and a report on 2021 ERA1 Demographic Percentages by State. Read…
Congress
Support for permanently authorizing the Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program is building in the Biden administration and in Congress. If enacted, the DHRC-…
A paper published in Housing Policy Debate, “Supportive Housing for Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals with Criminal Justice Histories: Challenges and Opportunities Identified by Providers and…
The National Equity Atlas released a report, “The Shrinking Geography of Opportunity in Metro America,” demonstrating the extent to which affordable housing in high-opportunity neighborhoods has…
The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) has released Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) spending data through March 2022. More than $714 million of ERA1 and more than $1.1 billion of ERA2 was…
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has released demographic data disaggregated by state that indicate emergency rental assistance (ERA) programs assisted a high share of Black households in each…