National Housing Law Project

It’s harder than ever for working families to find a home. @harvard-jchs.bsky.social State of the Nation’s Housing report shows that rising rents, disasters, & lack of fed funding block tenants from stable housing. Our govt. must take action to house tenants! www.jchs.harvard.edu/state-nation...

Leading Civil Rights Organizations Urge HUD to Uphold #FairHousing Protections Against Disparate Impact Rollbacks.

Read the full press release: bit.ly/4leX3bC.

What States Can Do to Regulate Tenant Screening The rental housing crisis continues to squeeze working families. Contributing to these struggles is the use of tenant screening reports, which typically combine information about eviction filings, cri...

Tenant screening companies employ discriminatory & sometimes illegal background checks that shut out people from applying to rent. @nclc4consumers.bsky.social's policy brief includes solutions that states can implement to regulate screening & protect working families. www.nclc.org/resources/wh...

We must continue their work, & fight back against ultrarich CEOs & corporations who install politicians to rig the rules in their favor. We recommit to protecting our democracy so everyone's voices are heard.

Graphic with text reading: Celebrating 60 years of the Voting Rights Act

No matter who we are or where we live, we all deserve the freedom to pick our leaders & have a say over decisions that impact us. We honor the civil rights heroes who won us the Voting Rights Act 60 years ago.

Trump is taking away our freedom to live in a safe and stable home, and giving control over our homes to corporations and big banks. How can we stop them? By sharing our stories. We want to hear from you, please use your voice and share your story today➡️nhlp.org/story

Graphic with text reading: "(These companies) have the power and the funds and they're working with somebody who they know is desperate," Tutt said. "They are preying on that desperation."

Predatory sale-leaseback companies can profit off people who just want to stay stably housed. NHLP’s Stacey Tutt said to The Columbus Dispatch: “They have the power and the funds and they're working with somebody who they know is desperate."

Graphic with text reading: The Trump administration’s widely publicized deportation blitz “creates a much more vulnerable environment for people who already, in the landlord-tenant relationship, have a disadvantage,” said Marie Claire Tran-Leung, an attorney at the National Housing Law Project, a tenant rights advocacy group.

No matter our race or party, we all deserve the freedom to live in a home without fear. But Trump is threatening immigrant families, creating a “vulnerable environment for people who already, in the landlord-tenant relationship, have a disadvantage,” said Marie Claire Tran-Leung to @calmatters.org.

Graphic with text reading: "Call for stories. HUD is trying to gut protections for gender expansive people accessing emergency shelters and other housing and crucial homelessness resources."

We need YOU to spread the word today, so we are ready to defend the life-saving Equal Access Rule. Share your story: www.research.net/r/equal-acce...

Trump is swiftly undoing transgender protections in HUD’s housing policies The Trump administration is swiftly remaking housing policy as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development retreats from long-established fair-housing protections for transgender people.

Everyone deserves the freedom to be who they are & love who they want without fear of discrimination. Trump’s HUD is trying to gut protections for gender-expansive people accessing emergency shelters & homelessness resources. apnews.com/article/tran...

Graphic with text reading: “More voices are critical, and especially elevating voices who have experienced housing inequity or insecurity. Elevating new voices as part of a community lends credibility to the work we do and turns this work into a true movement, rather than individual and scattered voices.”

We’re proud that our law clerk Robert Colton left us recently to work for the WA Supreme Court. We could only host him with the help of donors who gave to our Bryson Brennan Memorial Funds. With your help we can support more housing justice advocates like Robert - donate today! www.nhlp.org/donate/

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Graphic depicting the first half of the National Housing Law Project's statement on the Rural Housing Service Reform Act passing out of the Senate Committee on Baking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Find the full text here -- https://www.nhlp.org/press-release/national-housing-law-project-applauds-bipartisan-bill-to-keep-rural-americans-housed-passing-senate-committee/

🔊 The Rural Housing Service Reform Act just passed out of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs! The bill will help keep hundreds of thousands of poor and working rural Americans stably housed. See our statement ⬇️

HUD's Cooperation with ICE Stokes Fear in Immigrant Communities Home is no longer a safe space for thousands of mixed-status families who live with at least one undocumented person.

“We’ve seen this administration act cruelly and carelessly in carrying out its immigration agenda,” says Marie Claire Tran-Leung, NHLP’s evictions initiative project director. “And the carelessness is really clear in the MOU.”

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Graphic with text reading: “I think there are a lot of people saying there are housing wins in the reconciliation package, but I just see an attack on people experiencing poverty,” says Noëlle Porter, director of government affairs at the National Housing Law Project.

The recently passed reconciliation package took away life-saving programs for tenants who are already struggling to pay rent and cut taxes for corporations and wealthy CEO’s. This is “an attack on people experiencing poverty,” said @noelleporter.bsky.social to @nextcity.org.

Graphic with text reading: Today we celebrate the Americans with Disabilities Act. We’ll continue the fight so that anyone living with disabilities has the right to safe, inclusive, and healthy housing. Photo by Tom Olin.

Today we celebrate 35 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Organizers and advocates with disabilities have always fought on the frontlines to make our country more accessible for us all. We’ll continue the fight so that anyone living with disabilities has the right to safe & secure housing.

No matter where we live or how much money we make, the US has the resources to ensure we all have a safe place to call home. As Trump rolls back tenant protections, PolicyLink's new report is an important guide for organizers & policymakers advancing rent control. www.policylink.org/resources/pu...

Graphic with text reading: “The danger is that families make the calculus that they have to leave the housing that they currently have,” said Tran-Leung at the National Housing Law Project. “We are trying to really prevent that, because until this final rule is passed, the law hasn’t changed, and they have the right to stay there.”

The US has resources to ensure the freedom to live where we want, without fear. But Trump is gearing up to rip apart immigrant families in HUD housing. Families should stay in their homes “the law hasn’t changed, & they have the right to stay there” said Marie Claire Tran-Leung to @theintercept.com

Graphic with text reading: About the coming changes, Adams said: “We don’t exactly know what it’s going to look like, but we do expect that it will achieve the government’s current goal of kicking a lot of families that desperately need their assistance off the program.”

Trump is taking away health care & food from working Americans who don’t meet harsh work requirements. Next on his list? Housing. “We expect that it will achieve the govt’s goal of kicking a lot of families that desperately need assistance off the program,” said Hannah Adams to The American Prospect

Graphic with text reading: “NHLP provides the bridge that connects what can otherwise be disparate and difficult on-the-ground housing advocacy and tenants rights work into a nationwide tapestry of advocates united in a shared struggle, and then sharpens that advocacy into pointed, powerful, impactful federal and state advocacy to actually make change.” – Isaiah Paik, former NHLP law clerk

We’ve been lucky enough to host over 100 law clerks over the last 20 years. With your help we can continue to support clerks like Isaiah who are starting their careers in the housing justice space - donate today! www.nhlp.org/donate/

Costs increased for all of us last month and rent continues to be the main driver. The recently passed Reconciliation bill will harm millions of tenants who are already struggling to pay rent by taking away their food and health care. Our government must protect poor and working families.

¿Qué debe hacer si su proveedor de vivienda de HUD le pregunta sobre su estatus migratorio? Nuestro recurso "Conozca Sus Derechos" en Inglés y Español puede ayudar a las familias de HUD con estatus migratorio mixto a navegar algunas solicitudes de su proveedor de vivienda. nhlp.org/kyrdata

Graphic with text reading: “It is clearly a stated goal of the administration to impose work requirements and time limits on rental assistance, even though it would be wildly unpopular.”

People should have agency to make their own choices, without assistance being used to control them. But Trump wants to strip housing from working families who exceed strict time limits or don’t meet harsh work requirements, which are “wildly unpopular” said @noelleporter.bsky.social to @apnews.com

Graphic with text reading: “While the bill rejects some of the most dangerous priorities and funding cuts Trump laid out in his budget, the House text still is still far from what poor and working Americans need to stay stably housed,” Noëlle Porter, NHLP director of government affairs, told AN.

The House Approps bill takes away rental assistance & affordable housing from 400,000 people. Potentially forcing many families struggling to make ends meet into homelessness, it’s “far from what poor & working Americans need to stay stably housed,” said @noelleporter.bsky.social to @archpaper.com.

Graphic with text reading: “When landlords are allowed to use tech to maximize profit and nothing else is relevant, then it can become very disruptive,” said NHLP’s Eric Dunn

“When landlords are allowed to use tech to maximize profit and nothing else is relevant, then it can become very disruptive,” said NHLP’s Eric Dunn to @shelterforce.bsky.social.

Corporate landlords and their investors used the pandemic and inflation crisis to create rent-gouging software to artificially raise rents at the highest rate in history.

NHLP’s @noelleporter.bsky.social spoke to @law360.bsky.social: "The bill would kick thousands of American families off housing assistance & cut critical programs that fight housing discrimination, protect HUD tenants from health hazards, & preserve America's affordable housing stock."

The proposed House appropriations bill would take away housing from hundreds of thousands of poor and working American families.

This summer we’re hosting 3 law clerks who are working with our team on eviction defense research, litigation efforts, and tenant organizing. Help us build the housing justice movement - donate today! www.nhlp.org/donate/

We created a Know Your Rights resource in English and Spanish for HUD families with mixed immigration status to help them respond to their housing providers if they ask personal questions about their immigration statuses. Share this far and wide ➡️ nhlp.org/kyrdata