Take action! To ensure more efficient and equitable disaster recovery, Congress should pass the “Reforming Disaster Recovery Act” (S.2471/H.R. 4707). The bill would permanently authorize the CDBG-DR…
The Department of the Treasury (Treasury) released new data about Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) grantees that voluntarily reallocated their funds or had their funds recaptured and the programs…
House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters (D-CA) and members of the committee, including Representatives Emmanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Richie Torres (D-NY), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)…
The Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector affordable homes campaign released a national opinion poll that shows the public supports affordable housing investments in the “Build Back Better Act” by…
A new article in the journal Politics & Society, “Eviction and Voter Turnout: The Political Consequences of Housing Instability,” examines the impact of evictions on voter turnout in the 2016…
Sources: U.S. Department of the Treasury, ERA1 Voluntary Reallocation Voluntary Reallocation to Designated Entities; U.S. Department of the Treasury, ERA 1 Round 1 Reallocation
A New Jersey landlord accused of coercing more than 20 tenants into sexual acts in exchange for housing has reached a landmark $4.5 million settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ). Joseph…
NLIHC’s Virtual Housing Policy Forum 2022: Achieving Housing Justice, taking place March 22-23, 2022, 12:30-5:30 pm ET on March 22 and 1-5:30 pm ET on March 23, will feature an in-depth session…
NLIHC will honor Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY) at our 40th Annual Housing Leadership Awards Celebration, held virtually on Thursday, April 28. Representative Torres will receive the…
The Framework for an Equitable COVID-19 Homelessness Response is hosting a webinar on January 20 at 3-4:30 pm ET on partnering with people with lived expertise to design and implement homelessness…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of January 9:
“House fires strike U.S. poor amid affordable housing shortage,” Yahoo News, January 10 at: https…
