Memo to Members

The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of September 1: “For thousands in Dorian’s path, cost can stand in the way of evacuating,” Marketplace,…

NLIHC is pleased to welcome Alayna Calabro as a field intern for the fall and winter/spring semesters. Alayna is pursuing her Master of Social Work with a specialization in community action and…

NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months: National Association of Latino Elected Officials National Policy Institute…

Another massive hurricane is approaching Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, and, as always, the lowest-income people in the hurricane’s path will be hardest hit. Deeply poor households…

As Hurricane Dorian approaches the U.S., government officials have issued mandatory and voluntary evacuations along the East Coast from southern Florida to North Carolina. More than 342,000 low-…

More than two dozen members of Congress sent a letter to HUD Secretary Ben Carson on August 21 urging him to release a Federal Register notice to trigger the release of desperately needed…

The following is a review of additional disaster housing recovery developments since the last edition of Memo to Members and Partners (for the article in the previous Memo, see 8/…

September is NLIHC’s annual Membership Month, and we are setting our sights on a third straight year of more than 100 new members. NLIHC is a membership organization comprised of over 1,200 housing…

More than 450 organizations have signed onto a national letter calling on the moderators of the third presidential debate to ask the candidates about their affordable housing solutions. The…

NLIHC’s Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020 held another presidential candidate event on August 28. NLIHC state partner Housing Action NH hosted a roundtable discussion on affordable housing with…

Raising affordable housing on the national agenda will happen only when candidates understand the issue is important to voters. A recent national poll shows that more than 8 in 10 think…

Now that the harmful “public charge” rule is final (see Memo, 8/19), Protecting Immigrant Rights (PIF) has updated its materials designed to help advocates inform immigrant…