The Shriver Center on Poverty Law will hold a webinar on “Poisonous Homes: The Fight for Environmental Justice in Federally Assisted Housing.” The webinar, which will be held on Tuesday, July 28…
Responding to requests from housing advocates, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu’s Office for Emergency Relief and Recovery has announced $57 million in CARES Act funding for…
The UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy recently published a second installment in its Housing Justice in the Time of COVID-19 series. The new report, Hotel California: Housing the…
NLIHC’s next Our Homes, Our Votes 2020 webinar (August 20 at 3 pm ET) will focus on “Voter Mobilization: Early Voting and Vote-By-Mail.” The Washington Post reports that at least 76% of American…
President Donald Trump issued a memorandum to the Secretary of Commerce on July 21 declaring it the policy of the United States to exclude undocumented people from the 2020 Census.…
The House is scheduled to vote on a series of spending bills as soon as July 29, including the Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development (THUD) appropriations bill for fiscal year (FY) 2021…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel will testify at a House Transportation and Infrastructure hearing on equitable disaster recovery this week. The hearing, held by the Economic Development, Public…
National Updates
Congress
“To avoid a tsunami that could put millions of people out on the street, Congress should extend and expand the national eviction moratorium, provide emergency rental…
Join resident leaders and NLIHC staff for the next Tenant Talk Live webinar to learn about leveraging resident management councils, as well as to discuss the impacts of the coronavirus…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Rural Development sent a July 20 email to its Multifamily Housing partners providing three Q&As on how its Multifamily Housing programs will be…
NLIHC and the National Housing Law Project (NHLP), along with 168 other organizations, sent a letter to HUD Secretary Ben Carson on July 20 stating that HUD has the legal authority to…
