NLIHC’s End Rental Arrears to Stop Evictions (ERASE) project will host the second session of its three-part summer webinar series highlighting the achievements of 2022-2023 ERASE cohort members. The second session will focus on members’ successes securing the passage of and enforcing tenant protections. The call will provide NLIHC state and tribal partners and other advocates with information about various tenant protections pursued by cohort members, including limits on application fees, the creation of rental registries, and eviction record sealing legislation, while also highlighting advocacy strategies used by cohort members to divert evictions. The call will also showcase strategies being used by cohort members to ensure long-term housing stability for renters. Register for the session here.
The 2022-2023 ERASE cohort comprises 34 state and local nonprofit organizations that are conducting on-the-ground partnership development, capacity building, outreach and education, and policy reform and systems change work to promote housing stability, advance equity, and prevent evictions for renter households all over the nation.
The ERASE project was created in January 2021 and aimed to ensure that the historic $46.55 billion in emergency rental assistance (ERA) enacted by Congress during the COVID-19 pandemic reached the lowest-income and most marginalized renters. Recently, the ERASE project has turned its attention to ending housing instability and homelessness by advocating for the passage of more permanent tenant protections, including protections like source-of-income discrimination prohibitions, the civil right to counsel, “just cause” eviction legislation, eviction record sealing and expungement laws, and rent stabilization and anti-rent gouging measures. Learn more about the ERASE project at: https://nlihc.org/erase-project
Presenters on the upcoming call will discuss the types of tenant protections pursued over the course of the past year, strategies they have used pass tenant protections, challenges they have faced, and ways they have overcome these challenges. The webinar will take place from 3 to 4:15 pm ET.
Confirmed speakers for the event include:
- Kayla Laywell, policy associate, NLIHC
- Angelica Moran, public policy specialist, Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy
- Katie West, director of strategic initiatives, Housing Network of Rhode Island
- Andrew Bradley, policy director, Prosperity Indiana
NLIHC will host the final session of the summer webinar series on August 24, 2023, from 3 to 4:15 om ET. During the webinar, attendees will learn about the efforts made by the ERASE cohort to sustain emergency rental assistance programs within their localities. Attendees will also learn how cohort members are assessing their communities’ need for rental assistance, how emergency rental assistance will continue in the post-pandemic era, what funding streams exist to support the continuation of ERA program operations, and what legislative strategies are being utilized to sustain ERA over the long term.
Register for the webinar series here.