Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reintroduced the “Public Housing Emergency Response Act” in the Senate on May 20. The NLIHC-endorsed bill provides a one-time, $70 billion appropriation to address the…
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Infrastructure held a hearing on May 22, “PHA Oversight: How Scandals and Mismanagement Harm Residents and Taxpayers.” The hearing focused on…
As reported last week (see Memo 5/20), the Office of Affordable Housing Programs (OAHP) in HUD’s Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD) announced on May 15 the availability of a preview…
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 section of Memo provides…
The Opportunity Starts at Home (OSAH) campaign hosted a congressional briefing on May 20 focusing on two major bipartisan housing bills: the “Eviction Crisis Act” and the “Family Stability and…
Opportunity Starts at Home (OSAH) campaign partner ZERO TO THREE hosted a webinar, “A National Call for Safe, Affordable Housing for Our Children,” on May 22. On the webinar, leading experts from the…
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report, Rental Housing: Information on Institutional Investment in Single-Family Homes, on May 22. The report is based on a review of…
Voters in Dallas, TX, overwhelmingly approved a $1.25 billion bond package in a special election on May 4 that will allocate approximately $82 million to increase the supply of affordable…
NLIHC seeks a policy coordinator or policy analyst with a portfolio focusing on federal legislative policy and regulatory action related to the Coalition’s mission and priorities. The policy…
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of May 19:
“Amid record homelessness, a Texas think tank tried to upend how states tackle it” NPR,…
NLIHC is 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 housing…
