House Financial Services Committee Passes Two Bills Addressing Homelessness
The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services approved two bills addressing homelessness on May 18: the “Flexibility in Addressing Rural Homelessness Act” (H.R. 7196) and the “Coordinating Substance…
HUD Upholds Finding of Discrimination by Texas in CDBG-DR MIT Funding; NLIHC and other Housing and Civil Rights Organizations Urge HUD to Reach Consent Agreement or Withhold Funds
NLIHC and nine other national housing and civil rights organizations sent a letter to HUD Secretary Marcia L. Fudge on May 20 expressing appreciation for HUD’s decision to uphold the Office of Fair…
NLIHC and Disaster Law Project Submit Recommendations to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
NLIHC and the Disaster Law Project (DLP) submitted recommendations to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on May 20 regarding disaster recovery policies the…
Research Finds Access to Affordable Housing Impacts Infant Mortality Rates
Healthy Beginnings at Home, a pilot research program, published a study showing that expanding affordable housing resources significantly improves infant health outcomes. The researchers surveyed 100…
Register for May 31 Our Homes, Our Votes: 2022 Webinar: 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…
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,…
New Research Finds 2.7 Million Households Receive Eviction Filings Annually
A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), “Estimating Eviction Prevalence across the United States,” offers new estimates of the rates of eviction filings and…
Listening Project Highlights Housing Challenges Faced by Renters in Rural Missouri
KC Tenants, a tenant union in Kansas City, MO, recently undertook a listening project to learn about challenges facing tenants in rural Missouri in order to help build power among tenants statewide.…
Eviction Filing Rates Vary Widely Across States
Source: Gromis et al., “Estimating Eviction Prevalence Across the United States,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022. Note: The eviction filing rate is the number of evictions…
Hawai‘i State Legislature Approves $1 Billion for Affordable Housing, Increases Minimum Wage to $18 an Hour
Housing advocates are celebrating the recent passage by the Hawai‘i state legislature of several historic bills to support low-income renters and individuals who are unhoused in the state. The bills…
NLIHC in the News for the Week of May 15
The following are some of the news stories to which NLIHC contributed during the week of May 15: “‘Millions of families struggle to keep roofs over their heads’: Biden administration has a plan to…