The Massachusetts legislature finalized the fiscal year 2022 (FY22) state budget on July 29, overriding Governor Charlie Baker’s veto of $4.7 million for the Residential Assistance for Families in…
Our thoughts are with everyone impacted by Hurricane Ida, which slammed into the Southeast Louisiana coast as a major Category 4 hurricane on August 29, causing catastrophic damage sixteen years to…
Join NLIHC’s next Tenant Talk Live webinar on Monday, September 13 at 6 pm ET (5 pm CT, 4 pm MT, 3 pm PT). We will discuss resources available for tenants who are interested in becoming…
NLIHC, in partnership with the Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC), hosted an August 25 webinar titled “Assessing Vulnerability to Disaster in the Federally Assisted Housing…
NLIHC is pleased to welcome Brenna Olson as our fall 2021 policy intern! Brenna is a senior at American University (AU) pursuing her bachelor’s in communications, legal institutions, economics, and…
National Updates
Congress
Representatives Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Cori Bush (D-MO), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) led over 60 of their House colleagues in writing to…
NLIHC and National Housing Law Project (NHLP) sent on August 31 a letter to House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters (D-CA) outlining recommendations for Chair Waters’s forthcoming…
NLIHC and the HoUSed and Opportunity Starts at Home campaigns are hosting a congressional briefing on September 9 at 3 pm ET titled “Housing is Infrastructure: What the Latest Research Tells Us About…
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…
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…
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…
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…
