Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) introduced on July 29 the “Mapping Housing Discrimination Act” to examine the connection between historical racial discrimination and current racial disparities in housing.…
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…
New and Updated NLIHC Resources
Direct-to-Tenant Payment Implementation: Increasing Flexibility and Equity in Emergency Rental Assistance Programs
The Road Ahead for Low-Income Renters
ARPA…
HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing Programs (Multifamily), which oversees contracts with private owners of HUD-assisted properties, issued its 11th update to “Questions and Answers for Office of…
“The Housing Survivors of Major Disasters Act” (H.R. 3037), introduced by Representative Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) and Resident Commissioner Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon (R-PR), was unanimously approved…
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus held a hearing on July 27, “Oversight of Pandemic Evictions: Assessing Abuses by Corporate Landlords and Federal Efforts to Keep Americans in their…
During our most recent (July 26) national call on “HoUSed: Universal, Stable, Affordable Housing,” we heard from Per Olstad from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), who shared a new…
Join today’s (August 2) national HoUSed campaign call from 2:30-4 pm ET. This week’s call will focus on the expiration of the CDC eviction moratorium and immediate actions needed at the federal,…
Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-MO) on July 28 introduced the “Unhoused Bill of Rights,” a federal resolution calling on Congress to end the homelessness crisis by 2025. The resolution urges the…
A group of senators negotiating a bipartisan infrastructure deal announced on July 28 that they had reached an agreement on the $1.2 trillion package. While legislative text for the bill is yet to be…
The Biden administration is calling on major companies, nonprofits, government agencies, faith-based organizations, and others to spread the word that emergency rental assistance (ERA) is available…
Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY) led 106 of his colleagues in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) urging the inclusion of affordable…
