During our most recent (August 30) national call on “HoUSed: Universal, Stable, Affordable Housing,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) spoke about Congress’s short- and long-term efforts to expand…
Attorney General Merrick Garland sent a letter on August 30 calling on the legal community to volunteer to confront the ongoing housing and eviction crisis. The letter urges members of the legal…
U.S. Department of the Treasury guidance encourages the use of categorical eligibility to verify income and reduce barriers to accessing emergency rental assistance. In accordance with this guidance…
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) sent a memorandum to high-level HUD career staff and to Erika Poethig of the White House Domestic Policy Council detailing HUD’s existing statutory and…
FEMA announced major reforms to address long-standing barriers that have prevented the lowest-income and most marginalized disaster survivors from receiving the assistance they need to recover. The…
NLIHC has been closely tracking Treasury Department Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) programs since programs began in February 2021. Between April and September 1, some administrators have made…
The House and Senate are currently determining how to invest more than $330 billion in affordable housing as part of its $3.5 trillion infrastructure and economic recovery bill. Congress needs to…
Join today’s (September 7) national HoUSed campaign call from 2:30-4 pm ET. Jasmine Rangel and Jacob Haas from the Eviction Lab will join to share the latest data from the Lab’s eviction tracking…
NLIHC is pleased to welcome Jade Vasquez as project coordinator for the End Rental Arears to Stop Evictions (ERASE) project. Jade will work with NLIHC’s ERASE team to advance the Coalition’s mission…
NLIHC is pleased to welcome Jordan Brown as the Coalition’s 2021 fall research intern. Jordan is pursuing her bachelor’s degree at Georgetown University, majoring in sociology and African American…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of August 29:
“Anxious tenants await assistance as evictions resume,” Associated Press, August 29 at: https://…
