A recent study in Applied Geography, titled "Climate Gaps: Disparities in Residential Air Conditioning Access Across Ten US Metropolitan Areas," explores the significant disparities in residential…
NLIHC’s Opportunity Starts at Home (OSAH) campaign has released three updated fact sheets highlighting the impacts of affordable housing on food access, rates of homelessness, and the well-being of…
The Government Accountability Office (GAO), responsible for congressional oversight, has issued an unprecedented warning about the current state of the U.S.’s disaster recovery system. Coinciding…
Research by the Harvard Environmental and Energy Law Program (EELP), a member of the NLIHC-led Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition (DHRC), reveals that much of the current Administration’s plans for…
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) recently announced Story Bank, a powerful new initiative to fight back against the Trump Administration’s unlawful and dangerous housing policies. NHLP is…
On February 27, Protecting Immigrant Families (PIF) hosted a webinar on “Congressional Threats to Immigrant Families and Benefits in Reconciliation.” During the call, PIF outlined that the House and…
On Wednesday, HUD Secretary Scott Turner announced the termination of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, replacing it with an Interim Final Rule (IFR) that merely requires HUD…
On February 25, NLIHC’s State and Local Innovation campaign kicked off its “Strengthening Renters’ Rights: A Primer on State and Local Tenant Protections” webinar series for the year with a call…
NLIHC submitted a statement emphasizing the need for more affordable rental housing for the upcoming U.S. House Financial Services Committee Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance hearing, “Building…
Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA), Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee (HFSC), sent a letter on February 25 to HFSC Chair French Hill (R-AR) to hold an emergency housing…
On February 20, a coalition of 25 Senate Democrats, led by Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), sent a letter to…
The House voted on January 25 to pass a budget resolution that will provide the blueprint for a massive reconciliation bill. The bill passed on a razor-thing margin, 217-215, with all Democrats and…
