Advocacy
Rob Moore from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) joined the DHRC Disaster Recovery Working Group on January 4 to discuss FEMA’s Request for Information on its proposed changes to…
A new study by Kirk McClure and Alex Schwartz explores mobility in the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program, with a special focus on Latino households. The study, “Movement Toward High Opportunity…
NLIHC welcomes Gabrielle Ross to the field team as housing advocacy organizer. Prior to joining NLIHC, Gabby was a housing stability specialist for a property management company in Washington, DC,…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of January 2:
“Goodbye, rent assistance,” Forbes, January 6 at: https://bit.ly/3n70VjE
“Several states have…
WASHINGTON, DC– The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) is tracking and analyzing all emergency rental assistance (ERA) programs in the U.S. Today, the Department of Treasury…
After Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced the Senate would delay voting on the “Build Back Better Act” until January, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) said on Sunday (December 19) that he…
As NLIHC seeks to defend federal affordable housing programs and work for their expansion, we recognize the critical role of the voices of public housing residents, residents in other federally…
A survey of legal aid attorneys by the National Housing Law Project (NHLP) found that many landlords continue to evict renters despite available emergency rental assistance (ERA). The findings,…
A recent brief from Eviction Lab, “Preliminary Analysis: Eviction Filing Trends After the CDC Moratorium Expiration,” compares nationwide eviction patterns to pre-pandemic trends. Despite an…
A new study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) evaluates how HUD uses Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds to serve vulnerable populations. GAO found that…
New research from NLIHC and the Housing Initiative at Penn provides a preliminary analysis of key program-design features and outcomes, primarily spending outcomes, of emergency rental assistance (…
