NLIHC is accepting applications for our fall internship positions: one for communications/media/graphic design and one for research. Interns are highly valued and fully integrated into our staff work…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months:
Independence Social Service Summit, Independence, MO, August 16 …
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) wrote a letter to President Trump on July 24 responding to a Fox News interview with the president during which he commented on addressing homelessness in America.…
NLIHC held a Capitol Hill briefing, “Out of Reach: What State and Local Data Tell Us About Solutions to America’s Housing Crisis,” on July 26. The briefing informed more than 70 congressional office…
The House passed a two-year FY20-21 budget deal (H.R. 3877) on July 25 by a vote of 284-149. Congressional leadership and the White House announced on July 23 that they had reached an agreement to…
Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Todd Young (R-IN) introduced the “Reforming Disaster Recovery Act of 2019” in the Senate on July 26. The legislation, S. 2301, is a companion to a House bill of the…
Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló announced on July 24 that he would resign from office, after massive island-wide protests and the start of impeachment proceedings in the Puerto Rico House of…
The House voted on July 24 to pass a pair of bills that aim to improve public access to fiscal information about the use of federal disaster recovery funds.
The “Post-Disaster Assistance Online…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel sent a letter on July 23 to FEMA Acting Administrator Mark Gaynor on behalf of the Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition (DHRC) expressing significant concerns…
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 7/22…
It is critical for advocates to engage directly with policymakers to urge them to take action to address the issues of housing affordability and homelessness – and there is no better time for this…
The Trump administration published a proposed rule in the Federal Register on July 23 that would end “broad-based categorical eligibility” for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). If…
