California Governor Signs Legislation to Further Fair Housing and Address Roadblocks to Housing Development; Additional Housing Bills Await Governor’s Signature
California state legislators approved more than a dozen bills to increase housing supply, promote fair housing, and address homelessness in the 2023 legislative session, which concluded on September…
Children’s Defense Fund Releases Report on Housing’s Impacts on Children
Children’s Defense Fund released a report, “The State of America’s Children,” that identifies housing and homelessness as key issues impacting child poverty. The report reveals that 1.1 million…
Renters in Central and South Los Angeles Reduced Spending on Basic Needs to Afford Housing
A study published in the Journal of Urban Affairs, “How do renters survive unaffordability? Household-level impacts of rent burden in Los Angeles,” found 85% of surveyed renters in central and south…
Fact of the Week: Measures of Housing Stability by Status of Emergency Rental Assistance
Source: NLIHC, Housing Initiative at Penn, & Reinvestment Fund. (2023). Beyond Housing Stability: Understanding Tenant and Landlord Experiences and the Impact of Emergency Rental Assistance.…
NLIHC in the News for the Week of September 17
The following are some of the news stories to which NLIHC contributed during the week of September 17: “Why Permanent Supportive Housing Is the Answer to Homelessness” Invisible People, September…
Where to Find Us – September 25
Wisconsin Council on Physical Disabilities September Housing Committee Meeting – Virtual, September 18 (Courtney Cooperman) Neighborhood Preservation Coalition of New York Annual Conference –…
Migration Patterns Impact Low-Income Renters
Public Policy, Occidental College, and the University of California, Davis’s Center for Regional Change analyzes intra-state migration from the greater San Francisco Bay Area to the Central Valley…
Child Poverty Rate Doubles as Pandemic-Era Supports End
The U.S. Census Bureau released two annual reports, Poverty in the United States: 2022 and Income in the United States: 2022, on September 12. The official poverty rate in 2022 was 11.5%, relatively…
City of Palo Alto Expands Just Cause Eviction Protections
The Palo Alto City Council officially approved a new ordinance on August 21 that reduces the lease term required to qualify for just cause eviction protections. Under California state law, just cause…
PowerSwitch Action and Local Progress Impact Lab Release New Toolkit on Rent Stabilization Policies
National advocacy organizations PowerSwitch Action and Local Progress Policy Institute (also known as Local Progress Impact Lab) released last month a new toolkit to support elected officials,…
HUD Announces NSPIRE Inspection Resident Feedback Survey
HUD announced a new survey to obtain feedback from residents whose homes were inspected under the new National Standards for the Physical Inspection of Real Estate (NSPIRE) inspection process. Notice…