Senate and House Release Assignments for Key Housing Committees
The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives released assignments for key housing committees last week, although two vital committees – the House Committee on Financial Services and House Committee…
USICH Hosts Webinar on Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness
The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) hosted a webinar on January 10 focusing on the Biden administration’s federal plan for ending homelessness in the U.S. The webinar provided an…
House Passes Rules Package, Setting Stage for Appropriations Fights Ahead
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a rules package along mostly party lines on January 9, with a final vote of 220-213. The rules package lays out policies by which Republicans will run the…
Join Today’s (1/17) National HoUSed Campaign Call for Universal, Stable, Affordable Homes!
Join today’s (January 17) national HoUSed campaign call from 2:30 to 4 pm ET. NLIHC’s policy team will share its outlook on the 118th Congress, including potential opportunities to move bipartisan…
Representative Bowman and Senator Warren Lead Letter to White House Urging President Biden to Take Action on Housing
Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) of the U.S. Senate sent a bicameral letter to the White House on January 9 urging…
Atmospheric River Continues to Impact Central and Northern California with Flooding, High Winds, and Landslides
Over the last few weeks, California has been experiencing the impact of an “atmospheric river” – a meteorological phenomenon that has repeatedly driven moisture and storm activity into a…
Disaster Housing Recovery Update – January 17, 2023
HUD published two documents in the Federal Register for public comment. Both documents are Requests for Information (RFIs) concerning the Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery…
Discounts Available on Hotel Rooms for Forum – Book Now!
NLIHC’s Housing Policy Forum 2023 is quickly approaching, and we are excited to announce that early registrants will have access to discounted rates on hotel rooms at the Hilton Washington DC Capitol…
Application Deadline for Forum Hotel Scholarships Extended to January 23
To help low-income people attend our 2023 Housing Policy Forum in March, NLIHC is offering a limited number of shared-lodging scholarships for stays at the Hilton Washington DC Capitol Hill Hotel in…
OSAH Welcomes New Partners in Alabama, Alaska, and Maryland
The Opportunity Starts at Home (OSAH) campaign has welcomed three new state grantees: the Low Income Housing Coalition of Alabama, the Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness, and the Maryland…
New Data from Household Pulse Survey Suggest Disparities among Households Displaced by Disasters
New data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey offer insight into displacement among households due to disasters. As of December 2022, nearly 1.9 million households had been displaced…