The House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on October 21, “A Strong Foundation, How Housing is the Key to Build Back a Better America.” The hearing covered the importance of affordable…
Dot’s Home, a 2021 IndieCade Impact Award-nominated video game launched on October 22, gives players a chance to explore the harmful systems that dictate our relationship to race and place. IndieCade…
New York University’s Furman Center conducted a ZIP-code level analysis of applications to the New York State Emergency Rental Assistance Program as of August 31, 2021. The researchers found that…
In collaboration with NLIHC’s state and local partners, the End Rental Arrears to Stop Evictions (ERASE) team announces the release of our State and Local ERA Tenant Protections Database, a resource…
NLIHC announces the launch of the End Rental Arrears to Stop Evictions (ERASE) webpage. The ERASE project is NLIHC’s national effort to ensure the $46.5 billion in historic aid enacted by…
In a major win for disaster recovery advocates, the Senate Appropriations Committee’s 2022 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) bill includes the “Reforming Disaster Recovery Act.”…
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Research and Advocacy
An article in the New England Journal of Medicine discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted eviction as a public health crisis and exacerbated the…
Are you a housing provider in or near a disaster-impacted area? If you have vacant units, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) wants to know! The agency is operating a pilot program…
HUD’s Office of Affordable Housing Programs (OAHP) has posted slides and recordings from four webinars held regarding Notice CPD-21-10 that established requirements for the use of the HOME-ARP…
A new report from NLIHC and the Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC), “Picture of Preservation 2021,” characterizes the nearly five million homes that constitute the federally…
A report published in Housing Studies, “Home or hotel? A contemporary challenge in the use of housing stock,” examines the rapid growth of Airbnb short-term rentals in London since 2014. The number…
