Former Vice President and presidential candidate Joe Biden released a “Plan for Strengthening America’s Commitment to Justice” which sets a national goal of ensuring 100% of formerly incarcerated…
NLIHC’s Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020 nonpartisan voter and candidate engagement effort is offering NLIHC members and partners a webinar, Let’s Get It Started, on July 31 at 1:00 p.m. ET. The…
The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) cleared HUD’s proposed changes to the disparate impact regulations on July 19. According to HUD’s…
HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) has published a fifth new chapter, “Housing Search and Leasing,” to the 13-chapter Housing Choice Voucher Guidebook it is incrementally revising (see…
Senators Tina Smith (D-MN) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Representatives Denny Heck (D-WA) and Sean Duffy (R-WI) introduced the “Tribal Access to Homeless Assistance Grants Act” (S. 2282 and H.R.…
A study published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, “Adults with Housing Insecurity Have Worse Access to Primary and Preventive Care,” found that adults with housing insecurity…
The Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector affordable homes campaign recently published three new multi-sector fact sheets on its website, further showcasing the many intersectionalities of housing…
Governor Janet Mills signed “An Act to Strengthen the Lead Poisoning Control Act” (L.D. 1116) into law on June 27. The new law requires all Maine children to receive blood lead testing at ages one…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of July 21:
“Cities grappling with affordable housing shortage problems: long commutes, homelessness, costly…
NLIHC is accepting applications for our fall internship positions: one for communications/media/graphic design and one for research. Interns are highly valued and fully integrated into our staff work…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months:
UnidosUS 2019 Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, August 3
Independence…
