By Sid Betancourt, NLIHC
This article was adapted from an interview with John Atlas, a leader in the tenant organizing movement during the 1970s and ‘80s and the co-founder of Shelterforce, a…
By Evan Martinez, Formerly of NLIHC
NLIHC celebrates our 50th anniversary this year, and from the very beginning, our efforts to ensure affordable and accessible housing for people with the…
Dear Readers,
We are thrilled to introduce this new issue of Tenant Talk on behalf of NLIHC’s board and staff. For decades, tenant organizers in this country have fiercely advocated to secure rights…
NLIHC will release the spring edition of Tenant Talk on April 25. Tenant Talk is a semi-annual publication that engages tenants in housing advocacy and highlights organizing tactics and victories in…
NLIHC released on February 29 Advocates’ Guide 2024: A Primer on Federal Affordable Housing & Community Development Programs & Policies. Published annually, the Advocates’ Guide is a…
NLIHC released today a new brief, End Rental Arrears to Stop Evictions (ERASE): History, Successes, and Highlights. The brief recounts the origin of NLIHC’s ERASE project – which formally…
NLIHC and the Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC) released today a new report, Natural Hazards and Federally Assisted Housing. The report analyzes the risks posed by natural…
NLIHC and the National Housing Law Project (NHLP) released today a report exploring the initial implementation of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Rapid Unsheltered…
NLIHC and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities released today new updates to the Rental Housing Programs Database (RHPD), a publicly available collection of information on state and locally…
NLIHC released today Emergency Rental Assistance in Action, a collection of stories showing how the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s (Treasury) Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) Program has…
NLIHC, the Housing Initiative at Penn (HIP), and the Reinvestment Fund (RF) released today a joint report on tenant and landlord experiences with the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s (Treasury)…
By Dan Emmanuel, Sophie Siebach-Glover, and Mackenzie Pish, NLIHC
The Gap
NLIHC published its annual report The Gap on March 16. The report finds that the lowest-income renters in the U.S. face a…