TANF Cash Assistance Serves Just 22 Out of Every 100 Families in Poverty
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities released a report assessing how well Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) serves families in poverty. They find that the proportion of needy…
Study Finds Housing Market Discrimination Contributes to Racial Disparities in Exposure to Pollutants
A working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, “Housing Discrimination and Pollution Exposures in the United States,” finds evidence that discrimination in the housing market…
Over 7.7 Million Lowest-Income Households are Severely Housing Cost-Burdened, Spending More Than Half of Their Incomes on Housing
Source: NLIHC’s The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes; NLIHC tabulations of 2018 ACS PUMS data.
The 2020 Census and Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Communities
Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities have historically been undercounted in previous U.S. Census counts. Today, roughly one in five Asian Americans live in hard-…
Indiana Governor Vetoes Controversial Landlord-Tenant Bill
Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb (R) vetoed a landlord-tenant bill on March 25 that would have diminished protections for more than two million Hoosier renters. This marks only the second time that the…
NLIHC in the News for the Week of March 29
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of March 29: “The Homeless Need Houses, Now More Than Ever,” The Nation, April 2 at: https://tinyurl.com/…
The End of the Beginning – by Diane Yentel, NLIHC President and CEO
During this extraordinary and challenging time, I have been awed and inspired by so many of you – by your perseverance, advocacy, creativity and commitment. Many of you are frontline workers, working…
President Signs Coronavirus Package with Funding for Homelessness and Housing
Congress passed and President Trump signed into law a $2 trillion direct spending bill to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. The bill passed out of the Senate the evening of March 25 on a unanimous…
House Democrats, Members of Congress Introduce COVID-19 Response Bills
Prior to their passage of the COVID-19 response legislation negotiated in the Senate, Democrats in the House of Representatives and other members of Congress introduced their own bills to address the…
Senators Urged Leaders to Include Assistance for People Experiencing Homelessness in COVID-19 Stimulus Package
As Congress and the White House negotiated a COVID-19 stimulus package, a number of Democratic members of the Senate urged Senate leaders and the administration to ensure that people experiencing…
Bipartisan Coalition of Mayors Sent Letter Urging Congressional Leaders to Include Funding for Low-Income Renters and People Experiencing Homelessness in COVID-19 Response Bill
A bipartisan coalition of mayors and city officials across the country sent a letter on March 23 urging Congressional leaders to include funding to assist low-income households and people…