The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services approved two bills addressing homelessness on May 18: the “Flexibility in Addressing Rural Homelessness Act” (H.R. 7196) and the “Coordinating Substance…
NLIHC and the Disaster Law Project (DLP) submitted recommendations to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on May 20 regarding disaster recovery policies the…
A descriptive summary of emergency rental assistance spending (ERA) trends, Treasury Department reallocation, disparities between grantees’ remaining ERA funds and their outstanding need
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NLIHC supports the long-term implementation of emergency rental assistance for the lowest-income and most underserved communities.
What: National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) President and…
A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), “Estimating Eviction Prevalence across the United States,” offers new estimates of the rates of eviction filings and…
Join NLIHC’s sign-on letter urging Congress to enact the bipartisan “Eviction Crisis Act” (S.2182) introduced by Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Rob Portman (R-OH) and its House companion bill,…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) met last week to discuss the outline of a potential reconciliation package, giving the clearest signal in weeks that…
The National Coalition for Housing Justice (NCHJ) sent a letter to appropriations leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate on May 20 requesting robust funding for programs targeted to…
Join today’s (May 23) national HoUSed campaign call from 2:30 to 4:00 pm ET. We will be joined by Special Assistant to the President for Housing and Urban Policy Erika Poethig, who will discuss…
HUD announced in a media release on May 17 that nearly $749 million in national Housing Trust Fund (HTF) dollars have been allocated to states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S.…
HUD’s Office of Affordable Housing Programs (OAHP) in the Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD) issued “HOME-ARP Policy Brief: Preferences, Methods of Prioritization, and Limitations” on…
