President Biden released on April 28 the “American Families Plan,” a $1.8 trillion companion bill to the $2.5 trillion “American Jobs Plan.” The American Families Plan would invest in education,…
HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) issued Notice PIH-2021-12, making a $25 million public housing Operating Fund set-aside available to public housing agencies (PHAs) experiencing a…
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…
HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing Programs (Multifamily), which oversees contracts with private owners of HUD-assisted properties, sent an email to stakeholders on April 29 stating HUD has…
HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge announced on April 23 that HUD will resume physical inspections on June 1 for public housing and multifamily housing. Guidance in the form of Inspector Notice No. 2021-01…
NLIHC seeks a housing advocacy organizer who will be responsible for maintaining and expanding NLIHC membership and mobilizing advocates on federal policy priorities to advance the Coalition’s…
The Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California at Berkeley released a report outlining a new framework for federal housing policy, “Building a Better Ladder of Housing…
Join today’s (May 3) national HoUSed campaign call from 2:30-4 pm ET. Peter Hepburn from Rutgers University and Eviction Lab will join to share Eviction Lab’s latest research on eviction filing…
During the most recent national “HoUSed: Universal, Stable, and Affordable Housing” call, we discussed new funding to address homelessness from the American Rescue Plan Act and heard about a new…
NLIHC and the National League of Cities (NLC) released on April 29, “How to Establish and Improve Emergency Rental Assistance Programs: Suggestions for State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Elected…
NLIHC tracks state and local emergency rental assistance programs created or expanded in response to COVID-19 and collects in-depth information on each program. As of April 28, NLIHC had…