Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb (R) vetoed a landlord-tenant bill on March 25 that would have diminished protections for more than two million Hoosier renters. This marks only the second time that the…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of March 29:
“The Homeless Need Houses, Now More Than Ever,” The Nation, April 2 at: https://tinyurl.com/…
In 1974, Cushing N. Dolbeare founded the Ad Hoc Low Income Housing Coalition in response to the Nixon administration’s moratorium on federal housing programs. While this group focused on federal…
Washington, D.C. – The National Low Income Collation (NLIHC) announces the appointment of six new members to the NLIHC board of directors: Colorado Coalition for the Homeless Vice President of…
NLIHC data analysis estimates up to $100 billion needed in emergency rental assistance to ensure the housing stability of cost-burdened extremely and very low-income renters over the next twelve…
NLIHC released its annual report The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes in Spanish (La Brecha: La Escacez de Viviendas Asequibles). The report finds that extremely low-income renters in the U.S.…
An article in Housing Policy Debate, “State Affordable Housing Appeals Systems and Access to Opportunity: Evidence from the Northeastern United States,” finds evidence that legal systems that allow…
During this extraordinary and challenging time, I have been awed and inspired by so many of you – by your perseverance, advocacy, creativity and commitment. Many of you are frontline workers, working…
Congress passed and President Trump signed into law a $2 trillion direct spending bill to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. The bill passed out of the Senate the evening of March 25 on a unanimous…
Prior to their passage of the COVID-19 response legislation negotiated in the Senate, Democrats in the House of Representatives and other members of Congress introduced their own bills to address the…
As Congress and the White House negotiated a COVID-19 stimulus package, a number of Democratic members of the Senate urged Senate leaders and the administration to ensure that people experiencing…
A bipartisan coalition of mayors and city officials across the country sent a letter on March 23 urging Congressional leaders to include funding to assist low-income households and people…
