The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC)

Much of what is known about renters in the U.S. comes from national datasets like the American Housing Survey, Census Household Pulse Survey, and American Community Survey. While these resources provide considerable detail on topics like rental housing quality, rent costs, and renter demographics, they include only limited information on renters’ experiences and opinions about housing.

Memo to Members & Partners is our weekly newsletter. Read by everyone from housing advocates to reporters to members of the Administration and Congressional staff, Memo covers news from Capitol Hill, HUD and the Administration; the latest research on housing and related issues; and major activities of our state coalition partners around the country. Memo is sent by email each week.

By Nada Hussein, NLIHC State and Local Research Analyst On June 11, NLIHC will host the next State and Local Tenant Protections Network call. During the call, held bi-monthly from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm ET, attendees will hear from housing justice advocates and researchers in Washington and Texas about their efforts to advance stronger habitability protections for renters at the state and local levels.

By Mackenzie Pish, NLIHC Research Analyst A report published by Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) and the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH), “Nationwide Survey Shows Widespread Discrimination Against Gender-Expansive People, Including in Emergency Shelters,” found that nearly 1 in 3 transgender people have experienced homelessness in their lifetime and 6 in 10 of transgender individuals who have experienced homelessness have been denied access to shelter due to gender.

By NLIHC Field Team Applications are now open for NLIHC’s inaugural Organizing Fellowship, set to launch this fall for NLIHC member organizations. The NLIHC Organizing Fellowship is an intensive, nine-session program that trains staff at NLIHC member organizations in the fundamentals of community organizing. Each session will last for three hours over Zoom.

By Kim Johnson, NLIHC Senior Director of Policy and Tia Turner, NLIHC Project Manager, Our Homes, Our Votes Senate Republicans passed by a vote of 52-47 a second reconciliation package in the early morning hours of June 5 after spending hours debating proposed amendments to the bill in a marathon process known as “vote-a-rama.” The bill, (S.2; dubbed “Reconciliation 2.0”) would provide over $70 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

By Tia Turner, NLIHC Project Manager, Our Homes, Our Votes Recent developments related to mail-in voting restrictions and congressional redistricting continue to shape the voting rights landscape ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, raising concerns about voter access while also demonstrating the continued importance of advocacy, organizing, and legal action to protect fair representation.

By Alayna Calabro, NLIHC Senior Policy Analyst and Renee Williams, NLIHC Senior Advisor for Public Policy On May 1, NLIHC submitted an organizational comment letter and a sign-on letter urging HUD to withdraw a Proposed Rule that would permit public housing agencies (PHAs) and HUD-assisted owners to adopt work requirements and time limits on assistance (Memo, 5/11). The Proposed Rule was available for public comment from March 2 to May 1.

By Kayla Blackwell, NLIHC Senior Housing Policy Analyst New research from Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) and the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH) reveals previously unreleased data from the 2022 U.S Transgender Survey, which surveyed 92,000 transgender people.

HUD issued on April 30 a Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (SNPRM) that proposes removing important tenant protections from HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) regulations finalized in 2025 (see Memo, 5/11). Examples of tenant protections HUD seeks to roll back include: A requirement to relocate tenants, at no additional cost to the tenant, if a life-threatening deficiency cannot be resolved the same day. Requirements regarding security deposits and allowing tenants to organize.