Happening this Month! NLIHC to Host Webinar on Code Enforcement Protections on June 11
Jun 02, 2025
By Nada Hussein, Research Analyst, State and Local Innovation
On June 11, NLIHC’s State and Local Innovation (SLI) campaign will host the final iteration of its “Strengthening Renters’ Rights: A Primer on State and Local Tenant Protections” webinar series focused on laws that strengthen code enforcement procedures and habitability standards for tenants in the private rental market. During the call, from 2 – 3:30 pm ET, registrants will hear from housing advocates, tenant leaders, and legal service providers about efforts to enact stronger code enforcement procedures for renters at the state and local levels. Advocacy campaigns to protect tenants against substandard housing conditions in Colorado and New Orleans, Louisiana will be highlighted.
Registration for the webinar can be found here.
Since the fourth quarter of 2024, the SLI campaign has led the “Strengthening Renters’ Rights: a Primer on State and Local Tenant Protections” webinar series to highlight the critical importance of advancing renter protections in local jurisdictions and showcase the hard work and effort of tenant advocates across the country to protect renter households against arbitrary, discriminatory, and retaliatory eviction practices. Namely, the SLI campaign has held webinars in this series related to laws that limit excessive rental fees, commonly known as “junk fees,” rent stabilization protections, “just cause” or good cause eviction standards, and finally, on laws strengthening habitability standards for renters.
Such protections were also highlighted in NLIHC’s “State and Local Tenant Protection Series: A Primer on Renters’ Rights,” a series of four toolkits released in August 2024. The toolkits provide an overview of each major tenant protection listed, detail the components of the protection, list information about state and local jurisdictions that have adopted the protection, suggest provisions that should be taken into consideration when enacting the protection, and highlight complementary policies that can be passed alongside the protection to ensure the greatest impact possible. Corresponding to the toolkits are case studies that provide specific cases of state and local jurisdictions to have enacted such protections.
An agenda for the webinar can be found below:
Agenda:
- Welcome – Nada Hussein, NLIHC
Overview of Code Enforcement Procedures – Nada Hussein
Local Spotlight – Spencer Bailey, Senior Staff Attorney and Appellate Program Supervisor, Community Economic Defense Project
Local Spotlight – Monique Blossom, Director of Policy and Communications, Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center
Local Spotlight – Andreanecia Morris, Executive Director, HousingNOLA
Q&A
Register for the webinar here.
If there are any tenant protection topics that you would like to see highlighted in a future webinar, please reach out to State and Local Research Analyst, Nada Hussein, at [email protected]