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…
Where to Find Us – May 23
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months: Northgate Residents’ Ownership Corporation Board Meeting – Virtual, May 24…
NLIHC Releases Brief on Leveraging Federal Resources to Extend ERA
NLIHC released a new brief, “Extending the Reach of Emergency Rental Assistance: Leveraging Federal Resources.” The brief explores how three federal programs – the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal…