Over the last year, NLIHC continued to lead in the areas of affordable housing research, policy analysis, and advocacy, successfully working with low-income renters, people experiencing homelessness, and other key partners across the country to expand essential affordable housing resources and strengthen tenant protections and rights. Please consider donating to NLIHC at https://nlihc.org/donate to support our essential work, including the efforts of our HoUSed Campaign for Universal, Stable, Affordable Homes, Opportunity Starts at Home (OSAH) campaign, and Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition (DHRC)!
Our HoUSed campaign and OSAH campaign mobilized thousands of partners throughout 2021 and 2022 to push for investments in housing for the lowest-income people through the “Build Back Better Act.” This year, the HoUSed and OSAH campaigns have focused especially on protecting low-income families from the threat of deep budget cuts to HUD's housing and homelessness programs. When Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives threatened to cut HUD’s budget by 30% – a move that would have resulted in as many as 1 million households losing access to rental assistance and 120,000 fewer people experiencing homelessness having access to services – NLIHC mobilized HoUSed and OSAH campaign members and successfully helped prevent such extreme budget cuts. NLIHC and our partners are now advocating for the highest level of funding possible under tight budget caps for affordable housing and homelessness programs and working to protect thousands of our nation’s lowest-income and most marginalized households from losing their rental assistance.
At the same time, NLIHC’s DHRC – a group of more than 900 national, state, and local organizations working to ensure that federal disaster recovery efforts reach the lowest-income and most marginalized survivors – continued to grow over the last year, reinforcing its position as a national leader in the field of disaster housing recovery advocacy by providing materials, information, and presentations assisting advocates working in disaster-stricken areas and providing recommendations that are regularly adopted in disaster recovery reform efforts.
Please contribute to NLIHC so that we can build the political will needed to advance our long-term policy solutions and achieve housing justice!
Visit https://nlihc.org/donate to support NLIHC and our partners! Or give the gift of connection and/or financial support directly to NLIHC’s state and local partners in your area doing critical on-the-ground work.
Thank you for your support and your advocacy!