Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Todd Young (R-IN) introduced the “Family Stability and Opportunity Vouchers Act” on December 18. The bill would create an additional 500,000 housing vouchers…
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) published a new resource guide that explores the equity implications of the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic on marginalized…
Children’s Defense Fund, First Focus Campaign for Children, and Coalition on Human Needs recently launched two weeks of action called #FocusOnKids, urging Congress to pass a new COVID-19 relief…
A new study released by Redfin finds that historically redlined communities face a greater risk of flooding compared to non-redlined communities. The study found that across 38 metro areas in the…
Last summer, amid the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Opportunity Starts at Home multisector affordable homes campaign commissioned a national public opinion poll on issues related to…
The Opportunity Starts at Home (OSAH) multisector affordable homes campaign has awarded capacity building grants to eight state-based organizations that will be advancing the national campaign’s…
The following is a review of additional disaster housing recovery developments since the last edition of Memo to Members and Partners (for the article in the previous Memo, see 11/25…
As with other disasters, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the NLIHC-led Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition stands ready to convene and support disaster-impacted communities to ensure…
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, led 30 of his Senate colleagues in sending a letter to President Trump on September 17,…
During the most recent national call on coronavirus, disasters, housing, and homelessness, experts discussed the latest data on evictions, the impact of COVID-19 on income inequality, and the…
The NLIHC-led Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition is convening and supporting disaster-impacted communities to ensure that federal disaster recovery efforts reach all impacted households, including…
NLIHC is leading a sign-on letter for national, state, and local organizations and elected leaders urging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to extend the federal eviction…
