The Clark County (Nevada) Commission unanimously passed emergency protections for renters impacted by the coronavirus. The ordinance, passed on August 4 after being introduced and championed by…
Join resident leaders and NLIHC staff for the next Tenant Talk Live! webinar. We will discuss how low-income residents can mobilize for the 2020 election. The next Tenant Talk Live! …
National Voter Registration Day takes place on September 22. In 2019, the National Voter Registration Day effort registered almost half a million voters and had more than 2.5 million social media…
Join a live-stream celebration of the 2020 Housing Leadership Awards honorees Jennifer Leimaile Ho, Bill Faith, and Shauna Sorrells. These outstanding affordable housing leaders will be honored…
NLIHC is pleased to welcome Emmy Cohen as a policy intern for the fall. Emmy is pursuing her Master of Social Work with a specialization in community, administration, and policy practice at Howard…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of August 23:
“Why a historic eviction wave is bearing down on the U.S.,” The Washington Post, August 27 at:…
NLIHC is co-sponsoring a new webinar series, “Legal Levers for Health Equity in Housing,” in partnership with the National Center for Healthy Housing and the Center for Public Health Law Research at…
HUD announced in the August 14 Federal Register publication of FY21 Fair Market Rents (FMRs). FMRs are used to determine payment standards for the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program; initial…
National Updates
Congress
The Hill reports that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is facing growing calls from members of both parties to bring the Senate back from its August…
The Federal Register version of a waiver notice pertaining to the $5 billion supplemental Community Development Block Grant funds Congress appropriated through the CARES Act (CDBG-CV) was published…
Senate Republicans unveiled on August 18 a revised coronavirus relief proposal containing fewer resources than their initially proposed “HEALS Act.” Yet to be formally released, the so-called “skinny…
