NLIHC partnered with the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) to create a new factsheet, “Improving Housing Assistance in Response to COVID-19,” which describes the specific housing needs of women, families, and transgender women during the COVID-19 pandemic. Because women, particularly women of color, are overrepresented in the low-paid workforce, many women and families already struggled to afford their rents. As the pandemic causes increased economic instability, low-wage women, survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, LBGTQ people, people with disabilities, and immigrant women and families will need additional assistance and protections to stay stably housed. Read the NLIHC and NWLC factsheet at: https://bit.ly/2xHMyLC
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