Memo to Members

Memo: Final Days to Ensure Robust Housing Investments in Build Back Better; New ERA Resources; Dot’s Home Videogame; & Much More

After reports signaled the $327 billion in affordable housing investments could be dropped from the “Build Back Better Act,” advocates across the country joined NLIHC and congressional champions to…

House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) held on October 21 a hearing titled “A Strong Foundation: How Housing is the Key to Building Back a Better America.” The hearing…

Join today’s (October 25) national HoUSed campaign call from 2:30-4 pm ET. We will be joined by Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), who will share insights on what advocates can do to secure funding for…

On our most recent (October 18) call on “HoUSed: Universal, Stable, and Affordable Housing,” we highlighted a new resource on family homelessness, discussed lobbying considerations for 501(c)(3) non-…

The House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on October 21, “A Strong Foundation, How Housing is the Key to Build Back a Better America.” The hearing covered the importance of affordable…

Dot’s Home, a 2021 IndieCade Impact Award-nominated video game launched on October 22, gives players a chance to explore the harmful systems that dictate our relationship to race and place. IndieCade…

New York University’s Furman Center conducted a ZIP-code level analysis of applications to the New York State Emergency Rental Assistance Program as of August 31, 2021. The researchers found that…

In collaboration with NLIHC’s state and local partners, the End Rental Arrears to Stop Evictions (ERASE) team announces the release of our State and Local ERA Tenant Protections Database, a resource…

NLIHC announces the launch of the  End Rental Arrears to Stop Evictions (ERASE) webpage. The ERASE project is NLIHC’s national effort to ensure the $46.5 billion in historic aid enacted by Congress…

In a major win for disaster recovery advocates, the Senate Appropriations Committee’s 2022 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) bill includes the “Reforming Disaster Recovery Act.”…

National Updates Research and Advocacy An article in the New England Journal of Medicine discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted eviction as a public health crisis and exacerbated the…