Whistleblowers Reveal HUD’s Undercutting of the Fair Housing and Civil Rights Laws, NLIHC Joins National Fair Housing Alliance in Denouncing HUD’s Fair Housing Failures—Take Action to Defend Fair ...

NLIHC’s fall 2025 edition of Tenant Talk, Navigating Funding Cuts: Empowering Tenants to Shape Policy, focuses on the federal ...

The Trump Administration has continued attempts to dismantle fair housing and civil rights laws, including attempts to scapegoat LGBTQ people and immigrant communities, and erode longstanding civil ...

In July 2025, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs introduced the “Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream (ROAD) to Housing Act of 2025,” the first comprehensive bipartisan ...

So far in 2025, two issues have dominated Congress’s attention: appropriations and reconciliation. These are two separate processes that result in two different forms of legislation: Appropriations is ...

In March 2020, a close friend of mine was tragically murdered by her husband, who had been her abuser. She was an exceptionally compassionate individual, having recently donated a kidney to her ...

On July 24, President Trump signed an executive order, “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” that—if implemented—will harm unhoused people and worsen our homelessness crisis. NLIHC ...

Cuts to federal programs have historically impacted low-income communities, but recent actions have excessively targeted the most marginalized groups in the United States, exacerbating the challenges ...

NLIHC released its annual report, Out of Reach, on July 17. The report describes the Housing Wage, the hourly wage full-time workers must earn to afford a modest rental home without spending more than ...

Homelessness is a crisis in many communities – one that demands urgent action. To end homelessness once and for all, federal, state, and local governments must invest in proven solutions at the scale ...

Recap notes that OCAF amounts have been insufficient in recent years due to rising operating costs. Therefore, to help address this shortfall, a RAD property may request a one-time “Alternative OCF” ...

An article recently published by the journal PLOS Climate, “Exploring implementation of disaster risk management strategies by public housing authorities: A national survey,” examines how the uptake ...