NLIHC hosted a HoUSed campaign national call on January 13, sharing updates on HUD’s fiscal year (FY) 2025 Continuum of Care (CoC) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), news from Capitol Hill, and highlights of NLIHC’s policy priorities for the coming year. This call was not recorded.
NLIHC Senior Vice President of Policy David Gonzalez Rice moderated the webinar and provided an overview of NLIHC’s broad policy priorities in the coming year. NLIHC’s work will focus on three buckets: fairness, supply, and support. NLIHC will conduct oversight of the Trump administration’s erosion of civil rights and fair housing laws, and work to restore civil rights investigations and enforcement. We will also push for stronger federal protections for renters through the enactment of the Tenant’s Bill of Rights. We will also continue pursuing an expansion of rental assistance, including increasing the availability of Housing Choice Vouchers to help households better afford the cost of rent. Finally, NLIHC will continue pursuing policies to increase and improve the supply of affordable, accessible homes for people with the lowest incomes, including reforming the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) so it better serves families with the lowest incomes and people living in rural and Tribal communities; protecting and expanding the national Housing Trust Fund; and ensuring the housing accessibility needs of people with the lowest incomes are being met.
NLIHC’s Vice President of Field Strategy and Innovation Ramina Davidson provided an update on HUD’s FY25 CoC NOFO. Read more about this update here.
NLIHC Senior Director of Policy Kim Johnson shared updates on ongoing negotiations over the FY26 spending bill for HUD programs, as well as HUD’s recently released Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on disparate impact. Disparate impact is a way of determining whether a particular policy has a discriminatory impact on members of a protected group, even if the intention of the policy is not to discriminate. Implementation of the disparate impact standard has varied based on presidential administration; the Trump administration’s recently proposed changes would significantly weaken the standard, making it more difficult for victims of discrimination to hold bad actors accountable. NLIHC will publish more information and resources on the new rule soon.
Presentation slides from the January 13 call are available here. Register here for NLIHC’s next HoUSed campaign call on January 27, from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm ET.
Resources from the January 13 HoUSed Campaign National Call
HUD’s FY25 CoC NOFO and Impact on States
- Current status of the FY25 CoC NOFO
- NLIHC’s overview of the CoC program
- The National Alliance to End Homelessness’s analysis of the CoC NOFO
- The Alliance’s NOFO Advocacy Guide
- Take action on the CoC NOFO.
Policy Update
- Stay abreast of federal homelessness and housing policy updates by signing up for NLIHC emails here.
- Take action to oppose cuts to federal investments in affordable housing here.
- Learn more about disparate impact here.
Access NLIHC’s archive of HoUSed campaign calls and other NLIHC webinar recordings here.