Fact of the Week: Rents Are Out of Reach, Especially for Renters with the Lowest Incomes
Source: NLIHC’s Out of Reach 2019.
House Spending Package Includes Funding and Provisions for Disaster Relief
The House passed on June 25 a five-bill spending package for FY20 that includes funding and provisions that would affect disaster housing recovery efforts. The spending package created a Homeless…
Additional Disaster Housing Recovery Updates - July 1, 2019
The following is a review of additional disaster housing recovery developments since the last edition of Memo to Members and Partners (for the article in the previous Memo, see 6/24). Federal The…
Criminal Justice & Housing Fact Sheet Now Available!
The Opportunity Starts at Home multisector affordable homes campaign collaborated with JustLeadershipUSA to publish a downloadable “Criminal Justice/Housing” fact sheet on its website.…
From the Field: New York State Legislators Pass ‘Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019’
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the “Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019,” the strongest law protecting tenants in the state’s history, on June 14. The law permanently closes…
New Orleans Hosts NeighborWorks Training Institute, August 19-23
The next NeighborWorks Training Institute (NTI) will be held in New Orleans the week of August 19-23. In addition to offering a wide array of courses for nonprofit professionals in community…
NLIHC in the News
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of June 23. “Rent Is Becoming Unaffordable For Many U.S. Workers,” Forbes, June 24 at: https://rebrand.ly/up5xkx…
NLIHC Seeks Communications Specialist
NLIHC seeks a communications specialist who will be responsible for an array of communications coordination and project support for NLIHC’s Our Homes, Our Votes nonpartisan voter and candidate…
NLIHC Seeks Fall Interns
NLIHC is accepting applications for our fall internship positions. Interns are highly valued and fully integrated into our staff work. We seek students passionate about social justice issues, with…
NLIHC Welcomes Summer Policy Intern
NLIHC is pleased to welcome kenia jimenez as its newest summer policy intern. kenia is a recent graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in sociology and minors in…
Where to Find Us – July 1
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months: RESULTS 2019 International Conference, Washington, DC, July 15 NAACP State…