NLIHC is pleased to welcome Alayna Calabro as a policy analyst focusing on COVID-19 response. Alayna will work with the policy team to identify, analyze, and advocate for federal coronavirus relief…
The Illinois General Assembly dedicated $396 million of its $3.5 billion in federal Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF) dollars in its fiscal year (FY) 2021 budget to COVID-19-related rent and mortgage…
Opportunity Insights (OI) launched a real-time Economic Tracker that provides current data on the economic impacts of COVID-19. The tracker includes indictors from six domains: employment, consumer…
The U.S. Census Bureau, in collaboration with five federal agencies, began administering a Household Pulse Survey to collect data on household experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey…
An article in Housing Policy Debate, “Housing Search in the Age of Big Data: Smarter Cities or the Same Old Blind Spots?,” finds that the amount and type of information contained in Craigslist rental…
A study published in American Political Science Review, “The Geography of Inequality: How Land Use Regulation Produces Segregation,” found that whiter communities are more likely to support…
NLIHC and the Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC) released a new report, 2020 Picture of Preservation. The report explores the pivotal role the federal government plays in…
The Opportunity Starts at Home multisector affordable homes campaign released the results of a national housing instability public opinion poll that it recently commissioned through Hart…
National Updates
Congress
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) wrote to HUD Secretary Ben Carson on May 22 urging the department to move quickly in distributing more than $9 billion in housing…
NLIHC’s last national call on “Coronavirus, Housing, and Homelessness” took place on May 26. The call featured updates from national, state, and local advocates and service providers working to…
HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing Programs issued Notice H 20-4 on May 26 providing guidance on using electronic signatures and electronic document transmission. Such means of obtaining signatures…
