Congressional and National Updates
The Brookings Institution wrapped up a six-part series on federal disaster policy reforms with an epilogue calling for legislative action on disaster recovery –…
HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) posted fact sheets tailored to public housing residents and Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) households addressing new asset limits and income calculations…
Join NLIHC and our partners around the country in a tweetstorm on April 30 calling on the Biden administration to release the final “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” (AFFH) rule immediately!…
Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA), the ranking member of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Financial Services, sent a letter to President Biden urging the immediate release and…
The Our Homes, Our Votes: 2024 webinar series provides resources, guidance, and inspiration for organizations and individuals seeking to launch or strengthen their own nonpartisan voter and candidate…
The Our Homes, Our Votes campaign is NLIHC’s nonpartisan initiative to boost voter turnout among low-income renters and elevate housing as an election issue. This biweekly article in Memo provides…
Chantelle Wilkinson, director of NLIHC’s Opportunity Starts at Home (OSAH) campaign, participated in a panel discussion, “Integrating Strategies for Housing and Food Security: A Multidimensional…
A study published in the Journal of Urban Affairs, “Local rental market dynamics and homelessness rates among unaccompanied youths, single adults, and people in families,” examines the impact of…
NLIHC released on April 25 the Spring 2024 issue of Tenant Talk, a semiannual newsletter designed to engage residents in housing advocacy. The new issue, Tenant Talk: The Resilient Work of Tenants,…
Congresswoman Delia Ramirez (D-IL) held a “Future of Housing” press conference on April 23 to celebrate the reintroduction of two bills in the U.S. House of Representatives: the “Green New Deal for…
Lawmakers in Olympia, Washington, passed on April 16 a comprehensive set of tenant protections aimed at keeping renters stably housed amid a growing housing crisis in the city. Enacted through “…
Source: Source: HUD, 2023 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress. Available at https://bit.ly/2023AHAR. U.S. Census Bureau, QuickFacts: Population Estimates, July 1, 2023, (V2023…
