On our most recent (April 11) national call for the “HoUSed: Universal, Stable, and Affordable Housing” campaign, we discussed the latest guidance from the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury)…
As part of an administration-wide push to advance equity and racial justice across the federal government (see related article in this Memo), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released…
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Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
HUD announced on April 5 that it will make an additional $3.2 million in American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds available to help its…
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The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change calls for urgent action to respond to global climate change. The report states that in less than a decade, human-…
Kaiser Permanente recently announced that it would double its investment in affordable housing from $200 million to $400 million. The investment increase will be made to the company’s Thriving…
NLIHC is urging advocates to support needed public charge rule reforms by signing on to a letter to the Biden administration by the Protecting Immigrant Families (PIF) campaign. The letter urges the…
NLIHC will release this year’s The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes on April 21. Published annually, the report examines the supply of rental homes affordable and available to households at…
A new paper published in Cityscape, “Gentrification and Opportunity Zones: A Study of 100 Most Populous Cities with D.C. as a Case Study,” examines the prevalence of gentrification within Opportunity…
St. Petersburg’s City Council voted to allocate an unprecedented 76% of its “American Rescue Plan Act” (ARPA) funding to housing efforts, making the city the Florida locality that has designated the…
NLIHC seeks a chief operating officer to oversee the day-to-day operational functioning of NLIHC and ensure that the financial, administrative, resource development, human resources, and…
NLIHC seeks a manager/director of field organizing who will oversee the implementation of all field outreach, organizing, and advocate-mobilization efforts in support of the NLIHC mission, goals, and…
