NLIHC hosted a national HoUSed campaign call on January 16. We were joined by Jesse Rabinowitz, campaign and communications director at the National Homelessness Law Center, who provided a special update on a legal challenge involving the rights of people experiencing homelessness that will be considered by the U.S. Supreme Court. We also discussed Congress’s progress toward enacting a final fiscal year 2024 spending bill, as well as the status of negotiations on Capitol Hill over a potential tax package that could include key reforms to the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC). Kim Johnson of NLIHC provided updates on the legislative and administrative outlook for 2024, and NLIHC’s Noah Patton discussed disaster housing recovery efforts for the year ahead. We also received a field update from Will White of Hawai’i Appleseed.
A recording of the call, as well as the presentation slides, are now available.
The next national HoUSed campaign call will be held on February 12 from 2:30-3:30 pm ET. Register for the call at: https://tinyurl.com/ru73qan
Resources discussed on the 1/19 call:
- Supreme Court Case: Johnson v. Grants Pass – Jesse Rabinowitz, National Homelessness Law Center (NHLC)
- Learn more about the case here.
- NHLC’s Statement
- Housing Not Handcuffs Campaign
- State and Level Criminalization Threats
- Jesse Rabinowitz – [email protected]
- Legislative/Administrative Outlook for 2024 – Kim Johnson, NLIHC
- Join CHCDF’s National Day of Action on January 25!
- Contact your senators and representatives to urge them to expand – not cut – investments in affordable, accessible homes through the FY24 spending bill, including for NLIHC’s top priorities:
- Full funding to renew all existing contracts for the Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (TBRA) and Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) programs.
- Full funding for public housing operations and repairs.
- The Senate’s proposed funding for Homeless Assistance Grants.
- Protecting $20 million in funding for legal assistance to prevent evictions in the Senate bill.
- The House’s proposed funding for Native housing.
- National, state, local, tribal, and territorial organizations can also join over 2,100 organizations on a national letter calling on Congress to support the highest level of funding possible for affordable housing, homelessness, and community development resources in FY24.
- Contact your members of Congress and urge them to include key reforms to the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) in any tax legislation so the nation’s largest source of federal financing for affordable housing can better serve rural and tribal areas, as well as those most at risk of homelessness.
- Disaster Housing Recovery Update for 2024 – Noah Patton, NLIHC
- Register for the Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition Working Group calls here.
- Reforming Disaster Recovery Act of 2023 (S.1686, H.R.5940)
- Disaster Learning and Life Saving Act (S.3338)/National Disaster Safety Board Act of 2023 (H.R.6450)
- Stay Cool Act (H.R.4314)
- Disaster Assistance Simplification Act (S.1528)
- Federal Disaster Housing Stability Act (H.R.3219)
- Field Update – Will White, Hawai’i Appleseed