States and cities are working to create and improve Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) programs to help keep stably housed millions of renters who are behind on their rent and are at risk of losing…
NLIHC members and partners are encouraged to submit nominations (or self-nominate!) to fill current vacancies on the NLIHC board of directors. NLIHC is seeking to fill three low-income and one…
Housing advocates and homeless services providers in North Dakota are urgently stepping up to action after a recent vote in the North Dakota House Appropriations Committee to eliminate funding to the…
NLIHC released the Spanish-language edition of its annual report, The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes (La Escasez de Viviendas Asequibles), which finds that extremely low-income renters in the U.…
The National Equity Atlas and the Right to the City Alliance have released a new Rent Debt Dashboard, which currently estimates that 5,744,000 households are behind on rent and that the total…
New research published in Housing Policy Debate examines the effect of supply-side subsidized housing programs on eviction filings. The paper, “Sheltered from Eviction? A Framework for Understanding…
The Urban Institute has released results from the December 2020 Well-Being and Basic Needs Survey. The report, “Average Decline in Material Hardship during the Pandemic Conceals Unequal Circumstances…
HUD’s Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD) posted a notice in the Federal Register on April 26 inviting public comment about the January 30, 2015 Interim Final Rule implementing the…
The Campaign for Housing and Community Development Funding (CHCDF) sent on April 22 a letter signed by over 830 national, state, and local organizations to congressional appropriators requesting the…
HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan, and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, testified on April 20 before…
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) reintroduced on April 19 the “Green New Deal for Public Housing Act,” which would create new HUD grant programs to…
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…
