Must Reads
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Strengthening Civil Rights and Empowering Resident Leaders: Illinois Coalition for Fair Housing Receives Statewide Organizing Award
The Illinois Coalition for Fair Housing is a group of directly impacted community members and advocates committed to making housing access in Illinois equitable and just. Coalition members include tenant leaders, housing and homelessness organizations, disability rights advocates, civil rights and antipoverty groups, and faith communities. For nearly two decades, advocates in Illinois have pushed Continue reading
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Bipartisan Housing Bills in the 118th Congress
The 118th Congress kicked off on January 3, 2023, with Republicans in charge of the U.S. House of Representatives and Democrats in control of the Senate. A divided Congress may pose a challenge for passing effective solutions to homelessness, but advocates should not lose hope. NLIHC will continue to advocate for the bold policy goals Continue reading
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Expanding Access to Housing for People with Disabilities through Universal Design
In our last post, we heard from Claudia Swaney, a disability and housing rights activist from Michigan. As Claudia explains, almost half of all extremely low-income renter households in Michigan are headed by seniors or people with disabilities, but the state lacks the units necessary to provide affordable housing for them. What’s more, the units Continue reading
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Section 8 Housing
In our last blog post, Yvonne Farrell, a very low-income tenant and senior living in Washington D.C., wrote about her experiences facing housing instability. Yvonne explained that she gets “more run-around and rejection than rent assistance” but she believes that “HUD, with the current focus on eviction prevention, is going to come up with a Continue reading
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TWENTY-EIGHT PERCENT OF LGBTQ+ YOUTH HAVE EXPERIENCED HOMELESSNESS OR HOUSING INSTABILITY
On any given night in 2020, nearly 34,000 people under the age of 25 were homeless. LGBTQ+ youth have historically been overrepresented in this population, accounting for about 40% of the entire youth homeless population. In 2021, 28% of all LGBTQ+ youth reported having experienced homelessness or housing instability. These disturbing statistics are related to Continue reading
On the Home Front 