Just got a call from @RepMarciaFudge. She reached out to introduce herself and share her commitment to working with NLIHC and other key stakeholders if she is confirmed as HUD Secretary. 1/
We discussed the essential work she has ahead as HUD Secretary - from meeting the urgent need for housing stability of renters and people experiencing homelessness, to reinvigorating the morale and purpose of HUD...
...repairing the harm done by Trump admin to fair housing, LGBTQ+ rights & more, to working to advance housing solutions and achieve racial/housing justice. She’s spent her career working to alleviate poverty, hunger and racial inequities...
...and will bring that knowledge, passion and commitment w/her to HUD. She intends to seek guidance, ideas, feedback from NLIHC, & we look forward to supporting and partnering with her in the essential work to end homelessness and achieve housing justice.
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Here’s more info on the emergency rental assistance included in Covid relief package. (thread)
$25 billion for emergency rental assistance would be funded through the Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF) and administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Of $25B total, $400 million would be allocated to U.S. territories and $800 million to tribal communities. The remaining funds would be distributed to states and cities with populations of 200,000 or more. Each state would receive a minimum of $200 million.
At least 90% of the $ must be used to provide financial assistance, including back and forward rent and utility payments, and other housing expenses. Assistance can be provided for 12 months, or up to 15mo if needed to ensure housing stability for household.
Today Congress votes on bill with immediate & essential relief for millions of struggling renters, preventing tens of millions from losing their homes next month. The bill extends the eviction moratorium through 1/31 & provides $25B in rental assistance. 1/
While extending the CDC eviction moratorium for just 1 month is clearly insufficient to keep people housed for duration of pandemic, the extension provides essential & immediate protection for millions of renters on the verge of losing their homes in weeks.
Extending the moratorium through January provides time for some emergency rental assistance to be distributed, and for President-elect @JoeBiden to strength and further extend the moratorium immediately after being sworn into office.
✅ CDC eviction moratorium extended through Jan 31!
✅ $25 BILLION in emergency rental assistance!
✅ Extended deadline for spending CRF rental assistance $!
❗️THANK U FOR YOUR ADVOCACY❗️
Let’s get it enacted ASAP!
This achievement was made possible by the extraordinary advocacy of @NLIHC partners & allies throughout the country, and by the tremendous leadership & tenacity of congressional champions @MaxineWaters@SenSherrodBrown@SenSchumer@SpeakerPelosi! THANK YOU!
This op-ed from Donald Trump and @SecretaryCarson is exceedingly dishonest, filled with factual errors, distortions and lies. It is blatant and cynical fear-mongering, a cheap and harmful political ploy for votes.
.@SecretaryCarson says that building affordable apartments near single family homes is a “dystopian vision.” This is an abhorrent view from a HUD Secretary. With such disdain for HUD’s mission & the people HUD serves, he has no business “leading” the agency.
He calls efforts to abide by the Fair Hsg Act & further fair housing “social engineering,” once again displaying his willful ignorance of the decades of deliberate federal policies that created - some might say “social engineered” - segregated communities.
This Trump press conference & these EOs create confusion, questions and chaos when clarity, certainty and real solutions are desperately needed by struggling Americans. Trump alluded to “stopping evictions” but provided no details. 1/
The president’s authority to establish a broad national eviction moratorium in the absence of congressional action is questionable and will almost certainly be quickly challenged in court by landlord associations.
By relying on shaky legal authority, this executive order offers merely false hope, and risks increased confusion and chaos at a time when renters need assurance that they will not be kicked out of their homes during a pandemic.