National Updates
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
HUD released a policy brief on the relationship between HOME Investment Partnerships-American Rescue Plan Program (HOME-ARP)…
The U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure voted on April 28 on several disaster recovery reform bills. One of the bills, the “Community Disaster Resilience Zone Act,” is supported…
Congressional Action
Representative Joe Neguse (D-CO) and Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) sent a letter to appropriators in the U.S House of Representatives asking for additional funding for…
NLIHC will host “Tenant Talk Live” – a webinar with and for renter and resident leaders – today (May 2) at 6 pm ET. During the session, advocates will join us to discuss opportunities for organizing…
The Opportunity Starts at Home (OSAH) campaign will host a webinar, “How Multi-sector Partnerships Advance Racial Equity through a Housing Campaign,” on May 4 from 3 to 4 pm ET. The webinar…
Researchers from the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley have released a new report examining how local institutional capacity relates to take-up rates of…
Members of Congress sent three letters to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) last week in support of needed reforms to the “public charge” rule to ensure immigrant families can access…
NLIHC, the National Housing Law Project (NHLP), and the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) have updated a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) resource on eligibility for COVID-19 assistance based on…
After a two-week recess, the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate were back in session last week to begin negotiations over the fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget and attempt to revitalize discussions…
On our most recent (April 25) national call for the “HoUSed: Universal, Stable, and Affordable Housing” campaign, we received updates from Capitol Hill, discussed findings from NLIHC’s new edition of…
As reported last week (see Memo, 4/25), HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) released a new Public Housing Data Dashboard. In this Memo article, NLIHC provides a more detailed analysis of…
