National Low Income Housing Coalition

In 2021, nlihc launched the end rental arrears to stop evictions (erase) project, which aims to ensure that an unprecedented $46.5 billion in emergency rental assistance provided by congress reaches the lowest Income, most marginalized renters and people without homes as efficiently and equitably as possible and to protect people from eviction. Throughout 2022, our erase project continued to help state and local era programs around the country improve by providing implementation recommendations and models, leading to improvements in era disbursal. Through december 2022, $38 billion in era had been issued to renters in need. The era program has made nearly 10.8 million payments to households since january 2021. U.s. treasury data indicate that 63% of beneficiaries were extremely low-income households. In january 2022, nlihc hosted a conversation between the erase project's 38 state and local partners cohort and key federal government officials from the white house, the treasury department, hud, the department of justice, the u.s. interagency council on homelessness, the department of agriculture's rural development office, and the consumer financial protection bureau.in october 2022, more than 1,200 people gathered in person and online for "emergency rental assistance: the path to a permanent program," a National convening held by nlihc's erase project at the National press club in Washington, d.c. Focusing on the implementation of emergency rental assistance (era) and the prospects for making era permanent, the hybrid event included five panels, 23 guest speakers, two messages from members of congress, and more than 100 erase cohort members. In november, nlihc released a detailed report, "emergency rental assistance: a blueprint for a permanent program," a compendium of new research, innovative tools, and shared experiences regarding the implementation of era to support efforts to establish a permanent era program in the future.in addition, nlihc's work with state and local partners throughout the country resulted in more than 175 new state and local tenant protections being passed or implemented since 2021, resulting in increased Housing stability for millions of renter households. Nlihc also launched a new erase tenant protections webpage making available to the public data from nlihc's state and local era tenant protections database.nlihc continued to advance its goals in 2022, through our housed, ideas, and opportunity starts at home campaigns by:- promoting antiracist policies by organizing a summer of ideas (inclusion, diversity, equity, anti-racism, and systems-thinking) educational event series that showcased and amplified stories about the social and economic issues facing marginalized communities in the u.s. and participating in the creation of dot's home, a video game focused on race and Housing that received the game of the year award at the games for change festival, as well as a best narrative game award.- promoting universal, stable, affordable Housing for those most in need by collaborating with the key National partners to create a new webinar series focused on homelessness and Housing first. More than 7,800 people registered for the first webinar, "threats to Housing first," held on december 12. Nlihc also continued hosting bi-weekly National housed campaign calls to share the latest research, policy, and field updates with advocates around the country. These calls have been instrumental in ensuring nlihc's partners are aware of and ready to engage in federal advocacy. - engaging tenants in Housing advocacy by holding nlihc's first-ever hybrid tenant and community leader retreat in albany, ga, in october. The retreat gathered members of nlihc's tenant leader cohort, a group made up of people with lived experience of Housing insecurity who have become leading voices and advocates in their communities in the fight for Housing justice. In november, 11 members of the tenant leader cohort and nlihc ceo diane yentel attended a meeting at the white house on tenant protections. - developing resources for advocates to engage their members of congress on affordable Housing and homelessness issues, including the 2022 august recess advocacy toolkit and fall/winter advocacy toolkit. - helping secure an $8.1 billion increase to hud's budget in fy23 compared to fy22-enacted levels, ensuring enough funding to renew all existing Housing choice vouchers and project-based rental assistance contracts while also expanding vouchers to an additional 12,000 households.a key to nlihc's successes in nlihc's campaigns has been our ability to effectively mobilize the affordable Housing community and well beyond, to include partners in the health care, education, faith based, civil rights, local government and other sectors, engaging thousands of advocates in calls and webinars, signon letters, advocacy days, and other callstoaction.a few of nlihc's additional priority efforts in 2022 included:- producing and widely distributing ongoing research, like "the gap 2022: a shortage of affordable homes and "out of reach 2022," as well as 15 other research reports on emergency rental assistance programs, the state of affordable Housing preservation in the u.s., the National Housing trust fund, and much more.- leading the disaster Housing recovery Coalition (dhrc) of nearly 900 organizations to ensure equitable Housing recovery reaches the lowest Income and most marginalized communities too often neglected in recovery efforts. In 2022, nlihc and the dhrc sent or signed on to 12 letters to congressional leaders and administration officials, and we advanced three important disaster recovery reform bills in congress. - growing and expanding the influence of the nlihcled opportunity starts at home multisector affordable Housing campaign and advancing the campaign's priority Housing solutions.- updating and maintaining nlihc's and pahrc's National affordable Housing preservation database of all federally assisted Housing in the country, which provides organizations and advocates engaged in affordable Housing preservation with essential data.- partnering with the shriver center on poverty law, National Housing law project, and formerly incarcerated persons and families movement to launch the partnership for just Housing, a working group dedicated to increasing access to federally assisted Housing for people with conviction and arrest histories. - continuing to expand nlihc's leadership in media and social media communications. The number of media stories (in print, online, tv, and radio media) around the country featuring nlihc's research and expertise grew from approximately 2,000 in 2016 to more than 10,200 in 2022.