Now Available Online: Spring 2019 Tenant Talk and Advocates’ Guide 2019
NLIHC released two new resources online: the Spring 2019 edition of Tenant Talk: Gentrification and Neighborhood Revitalization: What’s the Difference?, a publication for low-income residents, and…
Housing Is Built with Ballots! Summary of 2018 Ballot Initiatives
For the 2018 election cycle, NLIHC’s Our Homes, Our Votes nonpartisan voter engagement project tracked the major local and state ballot measures for affordable housing revenue and tenant…
Resident Perspectives
Nicole Odom, Barry Farms Tenants Organize to Stop Gentrification in Barry Farms By Nicole Odom, Organizing Assistant at Empower D.C. Barry Farm in southeast Washington, DC had been a public…
Policy Update
Budget Update On February 14, Congress and the White House reached a final deal to fund the federal government for the remainder of FY19. In late December, President Trump and congressional leaders…
Be a Part of the Movement! National Housing Week of Action!
May 30 to June 5, 2019 Last May, advocates participated in more than 125 events throughout the country in the Our Homes, Our Voices National Housing Week of Action. After so much enthusiasm…
Gentrification and Neighborhood Revitalization: WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
Renovated former tobacco warehouses near downtown Durham, North Carolina There are many definitions for gentrification, which can make discussions about development and displacement confusing.…
Editorial Board Letter: PRICED OUT! Gentrification and the Battle for Our Neighborhoods
Dear Readers, Struggling neighborhoods throughout the country require new investment. Low-income renters too often confront food deserts, limited access to mass transit, unsafe housing conditions…
Additional Disaster Housing Recovery Updates – December 3, 2018
The following is a review of housing recovery developments related to the 2017 and 2018 disasters since the last edition of Memo to Members and Partners (for the article in the previous…
Survivors of California Wildfires Lack Adequate Housing Assistance
Both the Camp and Woolsey fires in California have been completely contained. After more than two weeks of burning, the Camp Fire destroyed or damaged over 14,000 homes, displacing tens of thousands…
House Committee Holds Hearing on Federal Disaster Response and Recovery Efforts
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing on November 29, “Evaluating Federal Disaster Response and Recovery Efforts,” for which the NLIHC-led Disaster Housing Recovery…
Additional Disaster Housing Recovery Updates – November 19, 2018
The following is a review of additional housing recovery developments related to the 2017 and 2018 disasters since last week’s Memo to Members and Partners (for the articles in last week’s…