The longstanding housing affordability crisis in the United States entered a new stage of urgency in 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic sparked an economic and public health emergency that threatened the…
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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, tenants in the United States were facing a crisis. Rising costs, stagnant wages, and a shortage of rental homes made it all but impossible for the…
NLIHC published in July Out of Reach 2021: The High Cost of Housing, which highlights the gulf between the wages people earn and what they need to earn to afford their rent. The 2021 national Housing…
NLIHC’s annual The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes report helps quantify the shortage of affordable and available homes for the lowest-income renters in the U.S. In the report released in March…
Safe and affordable housing remains out of reach for millions of people with disabilities and their families. People with disabilities are more likely to face homelessness and housing instability,…
To respond to the COVID-19 crisis, Congress passed two laws to fund the U.S. Department of the Treasury Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) Program, totaling $46.55 billion. The Treasury ERA program…
Congress Continues Debate over $3.5 Trillion Reconciliation Package with $327 Billion in Affordable Housing Investments
Congress is working to enact a $3.5 trillion infrastructure and economic…
National ADAPT, the world’s largest grassroots disability rights activist organization, has been fighting for disability justice throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. ADAPT engaged in media, policy, and…
Maryland became in May the second state with a “right to counsel” through the passage of H.B.18. “Right to counsel” means that income-eligible renters will have access to free legal representation in…
By: Nicole Jorwic, J.D., Senior Director of Public Policy, The Arc of the United States
It is empowering for anyone to be a homeowner, having an answer to “where do you live?” that doesn’t include…
Learn about your federal, state, and local housing, disability, and civil rights. Research the laws, regulations, statutes, and cases needed to provide the legal and moral grounding to support…
By Laura Ramos, Everyone for Accessible Community Housing Rolls!
"Lady Justice Rolls!” is a painting that embodies the history, discrimination, and despair that people with disabilities in the…
