People experiencing homelessness are more vulnerable to an outbreak of highly communicable diseases like COVID-19. Without a permanent place to call home, people experiencing homelessness are more…
Even before the growing public health and economic crises, the shortage of affordable and available homes was forcing nearly eight million extremely low-income households to spend more than half of…
More than 500,000 people experiencing homelessness are at high risk of contracting coronavirus. Having no shelter of their own to “stay at home,” they cannot control their environment, take…
Dear Readers,
We keep hearing on the news that the COVID-19 pandemic is “unprecedented.” It absolutely is, with the U.S. having an exponentially higher death rate than any other country, and the…
This is an extraordinarily challenging time: police killings of Black men and women; a global pandemic disproportionately harming and killing people of color; Depression-era unemployment levels…
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and 18 Senate co-sponsors introduced on June 1 legislation (S.3856) to authorize $11.5 billion for HUD’s Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) program for communities…
National Updates
Congress
The Colorado Sun published an op-ed by Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) urging Congress to address the housing crisis in the next relief package. In addition to…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will join today’s national call on Coronavirus, Housing, and Homelessness at 2:30-4 pm ET, to talk about the next coronavirus relief package and the…
Millions of our country’s lowest-income renters were struggling to make rent even before the pandemic hit. Now, more than 40 million people have applied for unemployment benefits since March. Without…
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development and Insurance will convene a hearing titled "The Rent Is Still Due: America’s Renters, COVID-19, and an Unprecedented…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel sent a letter to leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee calling for…
