The White House hosted a second virtual eviction prevention convening on July 21 to help municipalities quickly deliver rental assistance and develop community-specific eviction-prevention plans. The…
Register today for NLIHC’s End Rental Arrears to Stop Evictions (ERASE) Webinar Series. This three-part series (July 28, August 4, and August 11 from 3-4:30 pm ET) will provide emergency rental…
The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) seeks a project coordinator for its ERASE (End Rental Arears to Stop Evictions) project to ensure that the historic emergency rental assistance ($46…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of July 18:
“Rent relief programs ramped up in June, but fears mount that momentum may be coming too late,”…
The NLIHC-led Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition convenes and supports disaster-impacted communities to ensure that federal disaster recovery efforts reach all impacted households, including the…
Source: Urban Institute, “With Just a Month Left of the Eviction Moratorium, Many Mom-and-Pop Landlords and Tenants Are Still Unaware of Federal Rental Assistance,” 2021. Survey conducted in May…
Democratic leaders in the Senate reached an agreement on July 13 to pursue a $3.5 trillion reconciliation package that would be able to pass the chamber without Republican support. Senate Majority…
Urban Institute released a new paper on June 23 highlighting the country’s public housing redevelopment needs. Decades of insufficient federal funding and weak oversight have left public housing…
A report released by the Housing Initiative at Penn, An Early Analysis of the California COVID-19 Rental Relief Program, provides insight into program progress, program changes, and experiences of…
The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on July 15 on “CDBG Disaster Recovery: States, Cities, and Denials of Funding.” The hearing…
