The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of March 8:
“Opinion: Think kids won’t suffer from COVID-19? Wrong: It threatens them with more poverty, hunger…
Utah Senate Bill 39 (SB39) cleared its final legislative hurdle on March 10 when the Utah House of Representatives approved a one-time allocation of $10 million for affordable housing programs. The…
The U.S. Census Bureau has identified people with disabilities as a hard-to-count population, which means they are at a greater risk of being undercounted in the 2020 census. It is critically…
NLIHC released its annual report, The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, which finds that extremely low-income renters in the U.S. face a shortage of 7 million affordable and available rental homes…
Join the NLIHC-led Our Homes, Our Votes 2020 nonpartisan voter and candidate engagement project, and participate in a webinar on “Getting Candidates on the Record” about their affordable housing…
NLIHC’s 2020 Housing Policy Forum was scheduled to take place on March 25-27, and other NLIHC events planned that week included the our state partners’ meeting, a special session for resident leaders…
The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development held a hearing on March 11 to review HUD’s fiscal year (FY) 2021 funding request and budget justification.…
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 3/09…
The Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector affordable homes campaign sent a letter on March 12 to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and to House…
Join a national call on “Coronavirus and Homelessness/Housing” today at 2:30 p.m. ET. The call, hosted by NLIHC’s Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition (DHRC), will feature homelessness services and…
HUD’s Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs (SNAPS) cancelled its March 10 webinar, “Infectious Disease Preparedness for Homeless Assistance Providers and Their Partners,” (see Memo, 3/9) due…
