Join Tenant Talk Live Today (Monday 8/17) at 6 pm ET
Join resident leaders and NLIHC staff for the next Tenant Talk Live webinar, featuring NLIHC partners from the National Housing Law Project (NHLP). NHLP Director of Communications…
Emergency Rental Assistance in Response to COVID-19: Themes, Challenges, and Early Lessons Learned - Webinar August 19
Numerous state and local governments have created or expanded emergency rental assistance programs in response to the pandemic and economic crisis. These programs are imperative to keeping low-income…
California Advocates Push for Statewide Office to End Homelessness
California lawmakers are considering the creation of an Office to End Homelessness within the governor’s office. Currently, the state homelessness response is spread between 13 agencies administering…
NLIHC Welcomes Bairy Diakite as Operations Manager
NLIHC is pleased to welcome Bairy Diakite as the Coalition’s operations manager. Bairy will work with the NLIHC chief operating officer and the director of administration to ensure effective and…
NLIHC in the News for the Week of August 9
The following are some of the news stories NLIHC contributed to during the week of August 9: “Trump promises relief as renters await a second stimulus,” Forbes, August 14 at: https://tinyurl.com/…
Trump’s Empty Shell of a Promise to Renters – by Diane Yentel, NLIHC President and CEO
The executive order signed on August 8 by President Trump is an empty shell of a promise that does nothing to prevent evictions and homelessness and acts only to mislead renters into believing that…
Negotiations on COVID-19 Relief Package Break Down
Negotiations between congressional leaders and the White House broke down over the weekend as President Trump issued four executive orders and memorandums on August 8 purporting to extend protections…
New Research Shows 30-40 Million People Could Face Eviction Without Significant Federal Intervention
NLIHC partnered with nine other institutes and organizations to release a report on August 7 indicating that without significant federal intervention, 30-40 million people in the US are at risk of…
Join NLIHC’s National Call on Coronavirus, Housing, and Homelessness Today at 2:30 pm ET
Representatives Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) will join today’s (August 10) national call on coronavirus, housing, and homelessness at 2:30 - 4 pm ET. They will discuss…
Former USICH Directors Send Letter to Congressional Leaders Calling for Homelessness Assistance in Next Coronavirus Relief Package
Former directors of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) Fred Karnas, Barbara Poppe, Laura Zeilinger, and Matthew Doherty on August 5 sent a joint letter to congressional…
NLIHC Participates in Solutions to Homelessness Panel
NLIHC staff took part in a Law at the Margins (LATM) virtual forum, “Housing as a Human Right,” on July 25. The forum focused on concrete solutions to solving homelessness. LATM is a social justice…