Justice in Aging and NLIHC recently co-published an issue brief that explores how housing instability, housing unaffordability, and homelessness impact the low-income senior population. The issue…
The Opportunity Starts at Home multisector affordable homes campaign is pleased to announce a new state-based campaign, the Minnesota Chapter of Opportunity Starts at Home (OSAH-MN). The Minnesota…
Advocates have sent nearly 1,300 letters to members of Congress through the Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector affordable homes campaign over the past six weeks. The letters advocate inclusion…
Partners of the Opportunity Starts at Home multisector affordable homes campaign published on June 30 a new peer-reviewed commentary in Academic Pediatrics that calls on pediatricians to advocate…
The Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector affordable homes campaign hosted a congressional briefing on September 18 featuring three of its Steering Committee members: Children’s HealthWatch,…
Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Todd Young (R-IN) introduced the “Family Stability and Opportunity Vouchers Act” on December 18. The bill would create an additional 500,000 housing vouchers…
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) published a new resource guide that explores the equity implications of the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic on marginalized…
Children’s Defense Fund, First Focus Campaign for Children, and Coalition on Human Needs recently launched two weeks of action called #FocusOnKids, urging Congress to pass a new COVID-19 relief…
A new study released by Redfin finds that historically redlined communities face a greater risk of flooding compared to non-redlined communities. The study found that across 38 metro areas in the…
Last summer, amid the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Opportunity Starts at Home multisector affordable homes campaign commissioned a national public opinion poll on issues related to…
The Opportunity Starts at Home (OSAH) multisector affordable homes campaign has awarded capacity building grants to eight state-based organizations that will be advancing the national campaign’s…
The following is a review of additional disaster housing recovery developments since the last edition of Memo to Members and Partners (for the article in the previous Memo, see 11/25…
