On our most recent (October 12) call on “HoUSed: Universal, Stable, and Affordable Housing,” we welcomed Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY), who highlighted the advocacy needed to ensure the HoUSed…
Join today’s (October 18) national HoUSed campaign call from 2:30-4 pm ET. We will be joined by Barbara Poppe, Alexis Kramer, and Tiffany Haynes, who will share a new resource they authored on…
National Updates
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
HUD’s Office of Block Grant Assistance is hosting a four-part webinar series for Community Development Block Grant CARES Act (CDBG…
Partners from the Framework for an Equitable COVID-19 Homelessness Response released a new resource on addressing child and family homelessness. The resource, developed in consultation with experts…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking on the Public Charge Rule titled “Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility.” This is the first of three…
Federal Updates
The application period for the fiscal year 2021 Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) and Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) grant programs opened on September 30.…
NLIHC is releasing a new podcast, “The Home Front,” which focuses on housing policy priorities, advocacy by NLIHC and our partners, and other critical topics. Episode one, “Behind the Advocacy,”…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of October 10:
“When bad weather and bad landlords collide,” The New Republic, October 11 at: https://bit.ly/…
In response to opposition from centrist Democratic Senators Krysten Sinema (D-AZ) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) to the cost of the reconciliation package, negotiators in the House, Senate and White House…
The U.S. Department of the Treasury on October 4 issued guidance on reallocating the $25 billion in Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA), referred to as “ERA1,” appropriated under the Consolidated…
According to recent guidance issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, emergency rental assistance (ERA) programs that did not reach a 30% expenditure ratio by September 30 risk having a portion…
