Save the Date! NLIHC to Host Webinar on Code Enforcement Protections on 6/11!

Join NLIHC’s “Strengthening Renters’ Rights: a Primer on State and Local Tenant Protections” webinar on June 11, from 2:00 – 3:00 PM ET. The final iteration in the webinar series, this call focuses on laws that strengthen code enforcement procedures and habitability standards for tenants in the private rental market. During the call, attendees will have the opportunity to hear from housing advocates, tenant leaders, and legal service providers on efforts to enact stronger code enforcement procedures for renters at the state and local levels – specifically in Colorado and New Orleans, Louisiana!  

Register for the Webinar

NLIHC’s State and Local Innovation (SLI) campaign has led the “Strengthening Renters’ Rights: A Primer on State and Local Tenant Protections” webinar series as a way to not only highlight the critical importance of advancing renter protections in local jurisdictions, but to also showcase the hard work and efforts of tenant advocates across the country to protect renter households against arbitrary, discriminatory, and retaliatory eviction practices – while also bolstering housing stability. The SLI campaign hosted previous webinars in this series related to laws that limit excessive rental fees, commonly known as “junk fees,” rent stabilization protections, and “just cause” – or good cause eviction standards. 

Such protections are highlighted in NLIHC’s “State and Local Tenant Protection Series: A Primer on Renters’ Rights,” a series of four toolkits released in August 2024. The toolkits provide an overview of each major tenant protection listed, details the common components of the protection, lists information about state and local jurisdictions that have adopted the protection, suggests provisions that should be taken into consideration when enacting the protection, and highlights complementary policies that can be passed alongside the protection to ensure the greatest impact possible. Corresponding to the toolkits are case studies that provide specific cases of state and local jurisdictions to have enacted such protections.  

Agenda:  

• Welcome 
  • Nada Hussein, National Low Income Housing Coalition 
• Overview of Code Enforcement Procedures 
  • Nada Hussein, National Low Income Housing Coalition 
• Local Spotlight 
  •  Spencer Bailey, Senior Staff Attorney and Appellate Program Supervisor, Community Economic Defense Project 
• Local Spotlight 
  • Monique Blossom, Director of Policy and Communications, Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center 
• Local Spotlight 
  • Andreanecia Morris, Executive Director, HousingNOLA 
• Q&A 

Register for the webinar here. 

For more information on NLIHC’s State and Local Innovation campaign, please visit: https://nlihc.org/state-and-local-innovation.