Flooding
BuzzFeed News examines the growing risk of basement flooding as the shortage of affordable housing pushes more renters below ground. Officials across the country are looking to convert more…
HUD has published a new guidebook, Emergency Housing Vouchers: A How-To Guide for Public Housing Agencies. The guidebook provides public housing agencies (PHAs), Continuums of Care (CoCs), and Victim…
HUD’s Office of Multifamily Programs (Multifamily), which oversees contracts with owners of private properties assisted with Section 8 Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA), distributed a flyer in…
The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Chair Maxine Waters (D-CA) held a hearing on March 8, “The Inflation Equation: Corporate Profiteering, Supply Chain Bottlenecks, and COVID-19,”…
Housing Policy Debate published a report, “Rental Affordability, Coping Strategies, and Impacts in Diverse Immigrant Communities,” examining how rental affordability pressures impact financial,…
The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University (JCHS) released a new report, “How Well Does the Housing Stock Meet Accessibility Needs? An Analysis of the 2019 American Housing Survey.”…
Source: Housing Initiative at Penn and National Low Income Housing Coalition. Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) during the Pandemic: Implications for the Design of Permanent ERA Programs. March…
Residents of Boulder, Colorado, established an Eviction Prevention and Rental Assistance Service (EPRAS) program – implemented in January 2021 – as a result of an ordinance passed in November 2020.…
Celebrate Ann O’Hara, the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY), NLIHC’s 2022 Housing Leadership Awards honorees! These exceptional leaders will be recognized at…
NLIHC encourages advocates from across the country to register for our upcoming March 16 webinar, “NLIHC’s Policy Priorities for 2022,” in preparation for Virtual Capitol Hill Day on March 24.…
NLIHC seeks a development coordinator who will have prime responsibility for a portfolio of development/fundraising activities for the Coalition. The activities, along with those of a second…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of March 6:
“Rural Western KY already needed more affordable housing. Then the tornadoes hit,” Yahoo, March 6,…
