Take Action: Urge Your Members of Congress to Provide Increased Investments in Affordable Housing and Homelessness Resources in FY26!

Both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees have released and approved their fiscal year (FY) 2026 spending bill for HUD programs, which provides annual funding for HUD’s vital affordable housing, homelessness, and community development programs. See NLIHC’s updated budget chart for details.   

While overall, the Senate bill provides significantly higher investments in HUD programs and services than the House bill, neither fully addresses the urgent need for additional funding to maintain all current voucher contracts, including for the 59,000 households who currently rely on an Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) to keep a roof over their heads. 

Take Action Today!

Take Action!   

Keep the pressure on your representatives by contacting your members of Congress and urging them to protect and expand investments in vital affordable housing and homelessness programs, including full funding to ensure no household currently using a voucher loses the assistance they rely on to afford a safe, stable home.     

Use NLIHC’s resources to take action on FY26 funding, including:    

• Using NLIHC’s advocacy toolkit, “Opposing Cuts to Federal Investments in Affordable Housing,” to call on Congress to protect and expand affordable housing and homelessness resources, including NLIHC’s priorities:   
• At least $35.65 billion to renew all existing TBRA contracts, plus urgently needed funding to ensure the 59,000 households who rely on an EHV to keep a roof over their heads do not lose their assistance.   
• $5.7 billion for public housing operations, and at least $5 billion to address public housing capital needs.   
• $4.922 billion for HUD’s Homeless Assistance Grants (HAG) program.   
• $15 million for the Eviction Protection Grant Program (EPGP), as provided in the Senate’s spending bill.   
• At least $1.3 billion for HUD’s IHBG program and $150 million for IHBG-C funds targeted to Tribes with the greatest needs.   

The toolkit includes talking points, advocacy materials, engagement ideas, and more resources for advocates to weigh-in with their members of Congress on the importance of these vital resources!    

• Emailing or calling members’ offices to tell them about the importance of affordable housing, homelessness, and community development resources to you, your family, your community, or your work. You can use NLIHC’s Take Action page to look up your member offices or call/send an email directly!  
• Sharing stories of those directly impacted by homelessness and housing instability. Storytelling adds emotional weight to your message and can help lawmakers see how their policy decisions impact actual people. Learn about how to tell compelling stories with this resource.    

National, state, local, Tribal, and territorial organizations can also join over 2,700 organizations in CHCDF’s national letter calling on Congress to support the highest level of funding possible for affordable housing, homelessness, and community development resources in FY26.     

Visit NLIHC’s Advocacy Hub for more information and resources that can help you take action and help protect the affordable housing programs people rely on. 

Thank you for your advocacy!