The entire staff administering the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) were fired on April 1, along with 10,000 other staff of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).…
The Opportunity Starts at Home campaign’s breakout session, “Engaging Faith Partners in the Fight for Housing Justice” highlighted critical partnerships between faith-based and housing organizations…
NLIHC convened with state and Tribal partners in Washington, D.C. just before the 2025 Housing Policy Forum. More than 60 people representing 36 of NLIHC’s partner organizations, along with many…
NLIHC Collective tenant leader members led three workshops highlighting relevant topics impacting tenants across communities in the United States. Attendees engaged in powerful discussions around the…
More than 300 affordable housing and homelessness advocates gathered for NLIHC’s annual Capitol Hill Day on March 27, marking the conclusion of NLIHC’s 2025 Policy Forum. A record number of more than…
Join tomorrow’s (April 8) national HoUSed campaign call from 4 to 5 pm ET. The call will feature an update on federal funding for homelessness assistance programs from CEO of the National Alliance to…
NLIHC’s first-ever Our Homes, Our Votes Tenant Fellowship will convene 20 tenant and resident leaders committed to the mission of NLIHC’s nonpartisan Our Homes, Our Votes campaign to increase voter…
Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA), ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, sent a letter to Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comptroller General Eugene Dodaro and U.S.…
On March 17, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA), Ranking Members of the Senate Banking Committee and House Financial Services Committee, respectively, accompanied…
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) spoke on the affordable housing crisis in his record-breaking 25-hour long speech, referencing data from NLIHC’s annual report, The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Rental…
House Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole (R-OK) announced on April 2 that his committee would begin accepting programmatic funding and language requests for fiscal year (FY) 2026 community…
HUD announced a greatly revamped website on March 31 with a media release claiming the site was “high quality” and “streamlined;” however, as of April 3 the website is clearly not ready for prime…
