It has been a terrible week in our country. Many of us are reeling from the horror and heartbreak of the brutal killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. I join the demand for the police…
The Opportunity Starts at Home campaign released a new podcast episode, “The History of the Fair Housing Act.” The thirty-third installment in OSAH’s podcast series, the new episode…
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Bennie Thompson (D-MS), chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security, introduced the “Federal Emergency Management Advancement of Equity Act” (…
The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) has released Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) spending data through March 2022. More than $714 million of ERA1 and more than $1.1 billion of ERA2 was…
NLIHC is pleased to announce that Brooke Schipporeit, one of the Coalition’s housing advocacy organizers, has been promoted to the position of manager of field organizing. Brooke has served as an…
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has released demographic data disaggregated by state that indicate emergency rental assistance (ERA) programs assisted a high share of Black households in each…
NLIHC, the Fair Share Housing Center of New Jersey, Ayuda Legal Puerto Rico, and Texas Appleseed sent a memo to HUD on May 6 with recommendations to increase transparency and public involvement in…
Our Homes, Our Votes is NLIHC’s nonpartisan campaign to increase voter participation among low-income renters and to educate candidates about housing solutions. The Our Homes, Our Votes: 2022…
Our Homes, Our Votes affiliates are nonpartisan organizations that are formally identified with the NLIHC-led Our Homes, Our Votes project and committed to carrying out its goals. Tenant associations…
With the U.S. House of Representatives out of session from May 2 to May 10, few developments have been reported regarding the status of negotiations over a fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget since…
Join today’s (May 9) national HoUSed campaign call from 2:30 to 4:00 pm ET. We will provide updates on the reconciliation bill, the FY2023 funding bill, and the “Eviction Crisis Act” and discuss how…
