HUD SNAPS Postpones ESG-CV Recapture for Jurisdictions Not Meeting 80% Expenditure Deadline
HUD’s Office of Special Needs Programs (SNAPS) sent a message to jurisdictions receiving Emergency Solutions Grant-Coronavirus (ESG-CV) supplemental funds provided by the “CARES Act.” The message…
HUD PIH Restarts Public Housing Assessment Systems (PHAS)
HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) issued Notice PIH 2022-02 informing public housing agencies (PHAs) that PIH will resume the Public Housing Assessment System (PHAS) on March 31, 2022.…
Coronavirus Updates – February 14, 2022
State and Local News Arizona For the first time since February 2020, more than 5,000 evictions were filed in January in Maricopa County. Eviction filings have slowly increased since the federal…
Disaster Housing Recovery Updates – February 14, 2022
FEMA FEMA has updated its “shelter locator” texting feature. The feature allows users to retrieve a list of nearby shelter locations by texting “shelter” and their ZIP code to 43362. The feature is…
Campaign Partners Sign Letter to Congress Urging Major Expansion of Rental Assistance in FY22 Spending Bill
The Opportunity Starts at Home (OSAH) campaign sent a letter to appropriators urging them to include a House proposal to expand Housing Choice Vouchers to an additional 125,000 households in the…
New Research Shows More than Three Million Individuals Are “Doubled-Up”
A report published by Housing Policy Debate, “Quantifying Doubled-Up Homelessness: Presenting a New Measure Using U.S. Census Microdata,” proposes a refined measure to estimate the number of…
American Indian and Alaska Native Individuals Most Likely to be “Doubled-Up”
Source: Richard, M. et al. “Quantifying Doubled-Up Homelessness: Presenting a New Measure Using U.S. Census Microdata.” Housing Policy Debate. Note: A “low-income individual” is defined as an…
Radon Report Card Evaluates Radon Policies and Risks of Radon-Induced Lung Cancer in States
The American Association of Radon Scientists and Technologists (AARST) created a Radon Report Card providing state-by-state data on estimated radon-caused lung cancer risks as well as policies…
Delaware to Allow Non-Lawyer Representation for Tenants in Eviction Cases
The Delaware Supreme Court adopted a new rule (Rule 57.1) that allows tenants to be represented for free by qualified tenant advocates who are trained and supervised by one of Delaware’s three legal…
NLIHC Virtual Housing Policy Forum 2022 to Feature Discussion between Rep. Ritchie Torres and NLIHC’s Diane Yentel
NLIHC’s Virtual Housing Policy Forum 2022: Achieving Housing Justice, taking place from 12:30 to 5:30 pm ET on March 22 and 1 to 5:30 pm ET on March 23, will feature an in-depth discussion…
NLIHC to Honor Rep. Ritchie Torres at the 2022 Housing Leadership Awards Celebration on April 28
NLIHC will honor Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY) at the 40th Annual Housing Leadership Awards Celebration, held virtually on Thursday, April 28. Representative Torres will receive the…