Maine Governor Janet Mills signed two bills into law on April 27 to address Maine’s shortage of affordable housing. LD 2003 eliminates all single-family zoning restrictions, allows accessory dwelling…
NLIHC and friends celebrated NLIHC’s 2022 Housing Leadership Awards honorees, the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Ann O’Hara, and Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY), at the Virtual Housing…
NLIHC seeks a housing advocacy organizer who will be responsible for maintaining and expanding NLIHC membership and mobilizing advocates on federal policy priorities to advance the Coalition’s…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of May 3:
“Housing investments at risk as Build Back Better withers” The Hill, May 2 at: https://bit.ly/3LUKVLQ…
NLIHC is pleased to announce that Brooke Schipporeit, one of the Coalition’s housing advocacy organizers, has been promoted to the position of manager of field organizing. Brooke has served as an…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months:
Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness, 19th Annual Training Institute…
The U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure voted on April 28 on several disaster recovery reform bills. One of the bills, the “Community Disaster Resilience Zone Act,” is supported…
National Updates
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
HUD released a policy brief on the relationship between HOME Investment Partnerships-American Rescue Plan Program (HOME-ARP)…
Congressional Action
Representative Joe Neguse (D-CO) and Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) sent a letter to appropriators in the U.S House of Representatives asking for additional funding for…
Our Homes, Our Votes is NLIHC’s nonpartisan campaign to increase voter participation among low-income renters and to educate candidates about housing solutions. The Our Homes, Our Votes: 2022…
NLIHC will host “Tenant Talk Live” – a webinar with and for renter and resident leaders – today (May 2) at 6 pm ET. During the session, advocates will join us to discuss opportunities for organizing…
The Opportunity Starts at Home (OSAH) campaign will host a webinar, “How Multi-sector Partnerships Advance Racial Equity through a Housing Campaign,” on May 4 from 3 to 4 pm ET. The webinar…