Sen. Sherrod Brown and Rep. Maxine Waters to Address NLIHC Virtual Housing Policy Forum 2022, March 22-23!
NLIHC’s Virtual Housing Policy Forum 2022: Achieving Housing Justice, taking place from 12:30 to 5:30 pm ET on March 22 and 1 to 5:30 pm ET on March 23, will feature a conversation between…
President Biden Signs into Law FY22 Spending Bill with Increased Funding for Housing
President Joe Biden signed into law a fiscal year (FY) 2022 spending bill on March 11 with increased funding for affordable housing and community development programs. After nearly five months of…
NLIHC and Housing Initiative at Penn Release Report on Implications of Pandemic Emergency Rental Assistance for Permanent ERA Programs
The report shows that ERA programs faced recurring challenges in four areas: (1) staff capacity, technology, and infrastructure; (2) tenant responsiveness and application completeness; (3) landlord…
January Spending Data from Treasury Show Some State Grantees Have Exhausted their ERA1 Funds
The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) has released Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) spending data through January 2022. An additional $1.9 billion of ERA funds were spent in January, down…
Advocates Request President Biden Create Council on Housing Affordability
Representatives of the housing sector, including NLIHC, sent a letter to President Biden on March 9 asking that he convene a President’s Council on Housing Affordability. The letter – cosigned by…
Join Today’s National HoUSed Campaign Call for Universal, Stable, Affordable Housing!
Join today’s (March 14) national HoUSed campaign call from 2:30 to 4:00 pm ET. We will discuss the fiscal year (FY) 2022 spending bill and its implications for affordable housing, as well as the…
HUD Finds Texas Discriminated Against People of Color When Distributing Disaster Assistance
HUD’s Region VI Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity announced on March 8 that the Texas General Land Office (GLO) discriminated against communities of color in Southeast Texas when…
House Democrats Remove COVID-19 Aid from FY22 Spending Bill, Leave Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds Untouched
House Democrats removed plans to include $15.6 billion for COVID-19 aid in the omnibus package for fiscal year (FY) 2022 after multiple rank-and-file lawmakers expressed outrage that $7 billion of…
Coronavirus Updates – March 14, 2022
National Updates Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HUD announced on March 4 that it is awarding over $2.4 million in “American Rescue Plan Act” funding to 11 HUD Fair Housing…
Disaster Housing Recovery Updates – March 14, 2022
Flooding BuzzFeed News examines the growing risk of basement flooding as the shortage of affordable housing pushes more renters below ground. Officials across the country are looking to convert more…
HUD Posts Emergency Housing Voucher How-To Guide for Public Housing Agencies
HUD has published a new guidebook, Emergency Housing Vouchers: A How-To Guide for Public Housing Agencies. The guidebook provides public housing agencies (PHAs), Continuums of Care (CoCs), and Victim…