Larry Gross Reflects on Five Decades of Tenant Organizing in Los Angeles
By Courtney Cooperman, NLIHC
This article is adapted from an interview with Larry Gross, executive director of the…
By Sid Betancourt, NLIHC
Youth Action Boards (YAB) are local groups dedicated to addressing youth homelessness in their respective communities. These boards typically consist of young adults who…
By Sid Betancourt, NLIHC
Members of NLIHC’s 2023-2024 Collective have been hard at work connecting with one another, engaging in advocacy, and helping plan NLIHC events. The group first met during…
By Evan Martinez, Formerly of NLIHC
NLIHC celebrates our 50th anniversary this year, and from the very beginning, our efforts to ensure affordable and accessible housing for people with the…
NLIHC today released the summer 2023 issue of Tenant Talk, our semiannual newsletter designed to engage residents in housing advocacy. The new issue, Tenant Talk: Taking Pride into Our Work, explores…
Lawmakers in Idaho passed in March a set of new renter protections to support tenants with a history of eviction by creating a pathway to safe, stable, and affordable housing free from unjust and…
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,” explores how community…
The Opportunity Starts at Home (OSAH) campaign has released an updated fact sheet describing the connections between educational outcomes and stable, affordable housing. Research shows that stable,…
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. As the 2024 election season approaches,…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that it will host a community roundtable on May 2 from 2 to 3:30 pm ET for residents of USDA-financed housing. Roundtable participants will be able…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced new decoupling authority, as provided in the fiscal year (FY) 2024 appropriations bill, to decouple Rural Housing Service Rental Assistance (RA)…
NLIHC and several NLIHC members and State and Tribal Partners joined a letter led by the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) urging President Biden to release the final “Affirmatively Furthering…
