URGENT: Take Action – Congress Is Finalizing Key Details in Infrastructure and Economic Recovery Package
The House and Senate are currently determining how to invest more than $330 billion in affordable housing as part of its $3.5 trillion infrastructure and economic recovery bill. Congress needs to…
NLIHC to Host Congressional Briefing on Housing Solutions Needed in Infrastructure and Economic Recovery Package
NLIHC and the HoUSed and Opportunity Starts at Home campaigns are hosting a congressional briefing on September 9 at 3 pm ET titled “Housing is Infrastructure: What the Latest Research Tells Us About…
Join NLIHC Campaign Call on “HoUSed: Universal, Stable, and Affordable Housing” Today at 2:30 pm ET
Join today’s (September 7) national HoUSed campaign call from 2:30-4 pm ET. Jasmine Rangel and Jacob Haas from the Eviction Lab will join to share the latest data from the Lab’s eviction tracking…
Recording Available of August 30 National Call on “HoUSed: Universal, Stable, Affordable Housing”
During our most recent (August 30) national call on “HoUSed: Universal, Stable, Affordable Housing,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) spoke about Congress’s short- and long-term efforts to expand…
NLIHC and NHLP Submit Recommendations to Chair Waters for Emergency Rental Assistance Legislation
NLIHC and National Housing Law Project (NHLP) sent on August 31 a letter to House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters (D-CA) outlining recommendations for Chair Waters’s forthcoming…
ERA Programs Increase Flexibilities
NLIHC has been closely tracking Treasury Department Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) programs since programs began in February 2021. Between April and September 1, some administrators have made…
Using Administrative Data Can Reduce Barriers and Promote Efficiency in ERA Distribution
U.S. Department of the Treasury guidance encourages the use of categorical eligibility to verify income and reduce barriers to accessing emergency rental assistance. In accordance with this guidance…
Attorney General Garland Urges Legal Community to Take Action to Prevent Evictions
Attorney General Merrick Garland sent a letter on August 30 calling on the legal community to volunteer to confront the ongoing housing and eviction crisis. The letter urges members of the legal…
FEMA Announces Major Improvements for Low-Income Disaster Survivors
FEMA announced major reforms to address long-standing barriers that have prevented the lowest-income and most marginalized disaster survivors from receiving the assistance they need to recover. The…
NHLP Memorandum Urges HUD to Protect Residents from Eviction, Cites HUD’s Existing Authority
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) sent a memorandum to high-level HUD career staff and to Erika Poethig of the White House Domestic Policy Council detailing HUD’s existing statutory and…
Additional Coronavirus Updates – September 7, 2021
National Updates Congress Representatives Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Cori Bush (D-MO), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) led over 60 of their House colleagues in writing to…