Take Action: Submit a Public Comment to Ensure Fair Screening Practices for Tenants with Conviction Histories!
HUD has released a proposal to update guidance to landlords of HUD-assisted properties to help eliminate unnecessary barriers that too often prevent tenants with conviction or arrest records from…
Apply to Join the 2024-2025 Collective Cohort!
NLIHC is currently recruiting members of its next Collective cohort! The Collective is a group of tenant advocates and community leaders with lived experience of housing insecurity who work towards…
Our Homes, Our Votes Updates – Week of April 29, 2024
The Our Homes, Our Votes campaign is NLIHC’s nonpartisan initiative to boost voter turnout among low-income renters and elevate housing as an election issue. This biweekly article in The Connection…
Join Monday’s (5/6) “Tenant Talk Live” on Securing your Security Deposit
Join NLIHC’s next “Tenant Talk Live,” a meeting geared toward tenant and resident leaders, on Monday, May 6, at 6 pm ET. The meeting will feature guest LaKita Steel, who will lead a discussion about…
Memo to Members and Partners | Volume 28, Issue 16
Memo: NLIHC Joins Week of Action Opposing Criminalization of Homelessness; New Bills, Webinars, and Publications; and More!
Advocates Participate in National Week of Action to Oppose the Criminalization of Homelessness
Advocates across the nation participated in a National Week of Action starting on April 22 to oppose counterproductive and inhumane efforts to punish and arrest people experiencing homelessness and…
Join Today’s (4/29) Webinar on HUD’s Proposal to Update Tenant Screening, Eviction, and Termination Decisions for People Impacted by the Criminal-Legal System
NLIHC, in partnership with the Vera Institute for Justice, Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People and Families Movement (FICPFM), Shriver Center on Poverty Law, and National Housing Law Project (…
Senator Casey Introduces Bill to Boost Low-Income Housing Tax Credits for Accessible Housing
Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), the chairman of the U.S. Senate’s Special Committee on Aging, introduced the “Boosting Tax Credits for Accessible Housing Act” (S.3925) in the U.S. Senate. The bill is a…
Republican House Appropriators Block Nonprofits from Receiving Grants from HUD’s Economic Development Initiatives Program
Republicans on the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Appropriations announced new guidance banning nonprofit organizations from receiving funding (commonly referred to as “earmarks”) from…
House and Senate Subcommittees Announce Hearings on HUD’s FY25 Budget Request
The U.S. Senate’s Committee on Appropriations’ Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) will hold a hearing at 2:30 pm ET on April 30 to discuss President Biden’s budget…
Representatives Fletcher and Williams Introduce Bills to Make Disaster Aid Accessible to Heirs’ Property Owners
Representatives Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX) and Nikema Williams (D-GA) introduced the “Heirs Empowerment and Inheritance Rights (HEIR) Act” and the “Heirs’ Estate Inheritance Resolution and Succession (…