NLIHC is pleased to announce that Sarah Mickelson has joined our team as Director of Public Policy. Sarah worked previously with Enterprise Community Partners as a senior analyst. In this role, she…
HUD released new guidance to public housing agencies (PHAs) and other stakeholders to encourage greater efforts and collaboration in housing persons with criminal records. The guidance, “It Starts…
NLIHC joined 39 national organizations in sending a letter to Senators urging them to co-sponsor the “Housing Opportunities Through Modernization Act” (HOTMA) (S. 3083), recently introduced by…
Representative French Hill (R-AR) introduced the “GSE Review and Reform Act” (H.R. 5505) that would require the U.S. Department of Treasury to study ways of ending the conservatorship of government…
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and other Ways and Means Republicans unveiled the sixth and final plank of the House Republican’s A Better Way…
Senate Banking Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development Chair Tim Scott (R-SC), Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-NJ), and Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Roy Blunt (R-MO)…
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) will hold a webinar focused on protecting tenants in communities where their public housing is being converted to project-based vouchers (PBV) or Section 8…
Madeline McHale joins NLIHC as a Field Intern for the summer. Madeline is originally from Seattle, WA, but attends Connecticut College in New London, CT, where she is studying Sociology and Dance.…
Dr. Sheila Crowley, former president and CEO of NLIHC, testified before the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Platform Drafting Committee on June 8 on the housing needs of the lowest income people…
NLIHC is cosponsoring a congressional briefing on June 24 at 2 pm at the Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, DC, that focuses on why housing matters in criminal justice reform. The briefing will…
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) has created a “Beginner’s Guide to RAD Advocacy,” a four-page summary of the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD). The guide provides a short description of…
The Coalition on Human Needs will host a briefing that will include an evidence-based discussion of effective and ineffective anti-poverty programs. The discussion will include analysis of how the…
