Advocates celebrate Mayor Bill DeBlasio signing
New York’s new Right to Counsel law
NYC Guarantees Lawyers for Tenants Facing Eviction
New York City recently passed the first law in the U.S.…
Daisy Franklin
Make Change Happen through Resident Councils
By Daisy Franklin, Housing Committee Chair,
NAACP Norwalk and NLIHC Board Member,
Norwalk, Connecticut
I often talk with tenants in…
Write to Your Members of Congress
Your members of Congress need to hear your story and your input about why affordable housing matters to you. Consider writing an email or letter and sending it to…
Brooklyn, New York
Advocates at the New York Housing Conference and the Red Hook Initiative collaborated to create and host a social media booth at a public housing site in the Red Hook…
Affordable housing advocates from around the country joined the Week of Action by tweeting about the housing needs of the lowest income people using #OurHomesOurVoices
I am working on legislation…
This summer, NLIHC and the Campaign for Housing and Community Development Funding organized the Our Homes, Our Voices National Housing Week of Action. From July 22 to July 29, groups across the…
Dear Readers,
In the ten months since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, we have seen threats to the resources so many people in America depend on and to the values so many of us hold dear.…
President Donald Trump’s Fiscal Year 2019 budget request — released today — proposes drastic cuts to housing benefits that help millions of low income seniors, people with disabilities…
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Flooding in the Lakewood Area of Houston, TX.
Photo: Revolution Messaging/Arun Chaudhary
Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria have affected millions of people in Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Puerto…
CONGRESS
Senators Urging Creation of DHAP. On November 15, a group of 12 Senators sent a letter urging FEMA administrator Brock Long and HUD Secretary Ben Carson to better coordinate recovery…
U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) has just confirmed he will address the NLIHC 2018 Housing Policy Forum: Building the Movement.
The Forum will take place March 19-21 in Washington DC. The deadline to…