House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance Holds Hearing on National Flood Insurance Program Reform
The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Financial Services’ Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance held a hearing, “The Reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program: FEMA’s…
OSAH Urges Advocates to Tell Congress to Reject Budget Cut Proposal
The U.S. House of Representatives voted on April 26 to pass a harmful budget proposal that would lift the debt ceiling in exchange for dramatic cuts to domestic spending, including funding for…
Maryland Counties Introduce Legislation to Strengthen Rent Control
Elected officials in Maryland’s Montgomery County Council introduced the “Housing Opportunity, Mobility, and Equity (HOME) Act” on March 2. The act would limit rent increases to an amount determined…
Join Today’s (May 1) “Tenant Talk Live” Webinar on Section 9 Public Housing
NLIHC will host the next session of “Tenant Talk Live” – a webinar with and for tenant and resident leaders – today, May 1, at 6 pm ET. During the webinar, NLIHC staff will be joined by advocates…
NLIHC Invites Cover Art Submissions for Summer Edition of Tenant Talk!
NLIHC invites artistically inclined advocates (and anybody else!) to submit your original artwork for a chance to be featured on the cover of this summer’s edition of Tenant Talk! Entries should…
Research Finds Increased Risk of Death and Hospitalization Associated with Encampment Sweeps
Research recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, “Population-Level Health Effects of Involuntary Displacement of People Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness Who Inject…
Funding Declined for Most Key HUD Programs in FY2023 Relative to FY2010
Source: NLIHC federal housing appropriations data.
NLIHC in the News for the Week of April 23
The following are some of the news stories to which NLIHC contributed during the week of April 23: “Waitlists grow as developers plan, build and fill affordable housing” Yahoo News, April 23: https…
Where to Find Us – May 1
NeighborWorks Training Institute – San Francisco, CA, May 3 (Courtney Cooperman) National Association of Local Housing Finance Agencies conference – Tampa, FL, May 4 (Kim Johnson) United Tenant…
Tenant Leader Cohort Interest Meeting
Are you interested in joining our next Tenant Leader Cohort for 2023-2024? NLIHC will be holding a meeting on May 9th at 4pm ET to answer any questions regarding the cohort. If you are interested in…
Recap of 4/24 National HoUSed Campaign Call
NLIHC hosted a national HoUSed campaign call on April 24. Attendees heard the latest news from Capitol Hill regarding U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) harmful proposal to…