National Fair Housing Alliance Reaches Settlement with Facebook
The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA), Communications Workers of America (CWA), several regional fair housing organizations, and individual consumers and job seekers settled civil rights claims…
HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint against Facebook, Alleging Electronic Red Lining and Other Violations
HUD Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) Anna Maria Farías filed a Charge of Discrimination against Facebook with HUD’s Office of Administrative Law Judges on March 28.…
HUD Finds Los Angeles Continues to Violate Housing Accessibility Laws for People with Disabilities
HUD issued a Supplemental Letter of Findings to the City of Los Angeles on April 1 detailing the City’s ongoing failure to provide accessible housing for low-income people with disabilities. The…
House Subcommittee Discusses Proposal to Authorize Disaster Housing Recovery Grant Program
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing on “The Administration of Disaster Recovery Funds in the Wake of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria” on March…
Additional Disaster Housing Recovery Updates – April 8, 2019
The following is a review of disaster housing recovery developments since the last edition of Memo to Members and Partners (for the article in the previous Memo, see 3/25). Federal…
Advocates Begin Planning for Our Homes, Our Voices National Housing Week of Action
Advocates from around the country are beginning to plan how they will be involved in this year’s Our Homes, Our Voices National Housing Week of Action May 30-June 5. Every state and…
Watch Video Compilation of 2020 Presidential Candidates Addressing Affordable Housing
America’s affordable housing crisis has become a major 2020 campaign issue and is being addressed by presidential candidates in an unprecedented way. They are talking about the crisis and their…
From the Field: Nevada Advocates Urge State Legislature to Take Action on Homelessness and Housing Poverty
As NLIHC’s recently released The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes report demonstrates, Nevada has the greatest shortage of affordable housing for extremely low-income renters in the nation; the…
Register for the April 9 Webinar on How to Use the National Housing Preservation Database
NLIHC and the Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC) will co-present a webinar hosted by the National Housing Law Project (NHLP), Saving Multifamily Homes-- How to…
NLIHC in the News for the Week of March 31
The following are some of the news stories that NLIHC contributed to during the week of March 31. “Orlando is the fifth most 'rent-burdened' city in the U.S.,” Orlando Weekly, April 5 at: https://…
NLIHC Bids Farewell to Creative Services Manager Ellen Errico
NLIHC bids farewell to Creative Services Manager Ellen Errico at the end of March. Ellen accepted a creative services position at the ALS Association. Ellen joined NLIHC in July 2014 and…