Happening this Week! NLIHC to Host Code Enforcement Protections Webinar on June 11!

By Nada Hussein, State and Local Research Analyst 

This Wednesday, 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 with a focus on laws that strengthen code enforcement procedures and habitability standards for tenants in the private rental market. During the call, which will take place 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 through two case studies: one in Colorado and the other in New Orleans, Louisiana.  

Registration for the webinar can be found here.  

Since the final quarter of 2024, the SLI campaign has led “Strengthening Renters’ Rights: a Primer on State and Local Tenant Protections” to both highlight the critical importance of advancing renter protections in local jurisdictions and also showcase the hard work and efforts of tenant advocates across the country to protect renter households against arbitrary, discriminatory, and retaliatory eviction practices while bolstering housing stability. 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 this week’s call focused on laws strengthening habitability standards for renters.  

Such protections were 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 common 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 case studies provide specific details of state and local jurisdictions that 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, NLIHC 

• 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. 

Please reach out to State and Local Research Analyst Nada Hussein at [email protected] with any questions pertaining to the upcoming webinar on code enforcement protections.