The Treasury Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program included an unprecedented amount of funding for emergency rental assistance to help renters stay stably housed. The December 2020 COVID-19 relief package included $25 billion (ERA1) in urgently needed emergency rental assistance for tenants with low incomes and established the Emergency Rental Assistance …

Though much has changed in the past 50 years, our priorities remain much the same: bridging the gap between incomes and housing costs through rental assistance; expanding and preserving the supply of afordable rental homes; stabilizing low-income families and preventing evictions; and strengthening and enforcing renter protections. Join us this year in celebrating NLIHC’s 50th …

Research shows that increasing access to affordable housing is the most cost-effective strategy for reducing childhood poverty and increasing economic mobility in the United States. Learn more here.

We are dedicated solely to achieving socially just public policy that ensures people with the lowest incomes in the United States have affordable and decent homes.

The National Standards for Physical Inspection of Real Estate (NSPIRE) is a protocol intended to align, consolidate, and improve the physical inspection regulations that apply to multiple HUD-assisted housing programs (24 CFR part 5). NSPIRE replaces the Uniform Physical Condition Standards (UPCS) developed in the 1990s and it absorbs much of the Housing Quality …

2024年11月8日 · Registration for NLIHC’s Housing Policy Forum 2025 has officially opened! The 2025 Forum will feature conversations with administrative officials and key leaders in Congress, as well as an array of other speakers and panelists. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with and learn from thought-leaders, tenant and community leaders, policy experts, …

2024年12月16日 · Ongoing disagreements have delayed the release of a final spending agreement to extend federal government funding into the new year. Lawmakers worked through the weekend to a final deal on a funding agreement, known as a continuing resolution (CR), to extend funding for federal programs until March 14, 2025, but several outstanding issues …

National Shortage of Affordable Rental Housing The U.S. has a shortage of 7.3 million rental homes affordable and available to renters with extremely low incomes – that is, incomes at or below either the federal poverty guideline or 30% of their area median income, whichever is greater. Only 34 affordable and available rental homes exist for every 100 extremely low …

gal Services (RHLS). RHLS is a nonprofit law firm with unique expertise in affordable, sustainable housing and its related components — community and economic development, utility matters and preservation of home ownership. RHLS provides innovative project and policy solutions that help create sustainable communities offering decent, safe and affordable housing for lower-i

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 necessary to address the problem. The Housing First model is one of the best strategies for ending ...