The Senate Appropriations Committee released today its Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development (THUD) spending bill for fiscal year (FY) 2022, which provides critical funding for affordable…
Emergency Rental Assistance Spending and Performance Trends
Washington, DC – The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) released today Emergency Rental Assistance Spending and Performance…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel sent a letter on November 4 to U.S. Department of the Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge, and White House Senior Advisor Gene Sperling,…
HUD announced approval an allocation of more than $2 billion in long-term disaster recovery funds to 10 states struck by disasters last year. These funds constitute a little less than half of the $5…
Recent research from Urban Institute and Avail demonstrates that as awareness of emergency rental assistance increases, existing relationships between small landlords and tenants influence…
National Updates
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
As part of the CDBG CARES (CDBG-CV) Act Webinar Series, HUD will hold a webinar on November 17 from 1-2:30 pm ET on co-managing…
The House of Representatives failed to vote on November 5 on the “Build Back Better Act,” a $1.75 trillion economic recovery package containing $150 billion in vital affordable housing and community…
Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) led 14 of their Senate colleagues in introducing on November 4 a bipartisan resolution designating November as Homeless Children and Youth…
Representative Cori Bush (D-MO) and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) led 52 of their colleagues in sending a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on November 3 requesting additional information…
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued on November 4 an advisory opinion affirming that consumer reporting companies (including tenant-screening companies) engaging in “name-matching…
NLIHC, the National Housing Law Project, the National Consumer Law Center, and the Center for Survivor Agency and Justice on November 3 sent a letter to HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge requesting a…
The Monroe County Indiana Circuit Court attempted to require the implementation of a Pre-Filing Eviction Diversion Program in August of 2021. Shortly after the inception of the program, the Indiana…
