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9 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
🚨The HFS Committee just released bill to invest $330B+ in affordable housing as part of $3.5T reconciliation bill. It includes major investments in our top priorities:

- $90B rental assistance!
- $80B public housing!
- $37B national Housing Trust Fund!
Committee will vote on the bill on Monday. This is an extraordinary milestone – but we have further to go to achieve these long overdue and much needed investments!
Continue contacting your senators and representative and urge them to include full funding for the #HoUSed campaign’s priorities in the infrastructure and economic recovery package: nlihc.secure.force.com/actions/TakeAc…
And join more than 1,300 organizations nationwide by signing the #HoUSed campaign letter and urging major investments in rental assistance, public housing and the national Housing Trust Fund! nlihc.secure.force.com/actions/Captur…

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Diane Yentel Profile picture
10 Sep
I’m testifying tomorrow, on behalf of @NLIHC, at a House Financial Services Committee hearing on reforms to expedite the delivery of emergency rental assistance. My written testimony is here: financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…

Some takeaways (thread):
The urgency of getting emergency rental assistance to tenants and landlords *cannot* be overstated - but many communities are spending their allocations much too slowly.

Only $7.5 billion of the first $25 billion of ERA has been spent or obligated.
While programs have collectively helped nearly 1m households, at least another 1.2m households submitted applications but have yet to receive aid. Many others struggle to complete applications due to complexity, inaccessibility, or documentation requirements.
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18 Aug
This is, unfortunately, the 3rd time that Senator Wyden is introducing a bill to create a Middle Income Housing Tax Credit (MIHTC) and, for the 3rd time, we oppose the provision. finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
There’s a lot to like in the larger bill - expanded rental assistance, a new project based renters tax credit, and more. But a MIHTC remains a wasteful and misguided proposal.
There is no sound rationale for investing billions of dollars of scarce federal resources targeted toward the development of market-rate housing, when changes to local zoning laws would have largely the same impact.
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24 Jun
🚨BREAKING: President Biden will extend federal eviction moratorium for 30 days & activate whole of government approach on eviction prevention/diversion, as we urged. Now we must redouble efforts to get ERA to tenants who need it to stay stably housed.
In addition to extending the moratorium, the White House will implement many of our recommendations including

1) New guidance from Treasury for ERA program to accelerate and broaden state and local delivery of funds.
2) Guidance from DOJ to state courts encouraging them to adopt anti-eviction diversion practices.

3) Guidance from HUD to prevent eviction-related Fair Housing Act violations.

4) Major public awareness effort to raise awareness about ERA.
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15 Jun
NLIHC & our Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition of 850+ orgs are urging the Biden admin to extend the CDC eviction moratorium and use a whole of government approach to get emergency rental assistance out more efficiently & effectively. bit.ly/3iEUWkE ImageImageImage
While vaccinations rates are up & COVID-19 caseloads down in many areas, communities w/ lower vaccination rates & higher COVID-19 cases are the same as those with renters at heightened risk of eviction when the moratorium expires. evictionlab.org/filing-and-vac…
Allowing the federal eviction moratorium to expire before vaccination rates increase in marginalized communities could lead to increased spread of, and deaths from, COVID-19. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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7 May
🚨Treasury and the White House release 2nd allocation of Emergency Rental Assistance and publish important new guidance with major improvements to help ensure the $ reaches the lowest income & most marginalized people in need. 🚨 (thread)
In March, @NLIHC wrote to @SecYellen @SecFudge @AmbassadorRice @genebsperling to share emerging & troubling trends with ERA programs & urged quick improvements to ensure the $ reaches the lowest income people in need. They listened and quickly acted.
Only a small # of ERA programs are using direct-to-tenant assistance despite some landlords refusing to participate.

We urged Treasury to strongly encourage direct-to-tenant assistance & reduce time period to determine landlord refusal.
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5 May
.@nardotrealtor continues push to evict during pandemic, just as $46B in rental assistance starts reaching renters & landlords. Infuriating. 1/ thehill.com/regulation/cou…
Several district courts have attempted to strike down moratorium, but all had limited application. There are now numerous conflicting court rulings at the district court level, with several judges ruling in favor of the moratorium and several ruling against.
While this latest ruling is written more starkly than previous ones, it likely has equally limited application impacting only the plaintiffs who brought the case or, at most, renters in the district court’s jurisdiction.
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