We’re proud to support The Kelsey More's training: Protect Housing for Disabled People: Understanding National Threats and Calls to Action! 🗓 Sept 22 | 3–4:30pm ET 🖥 Online | Free | ASL + captions Register today: bit.ly/4nf5EfQ

Join our team! The National Housing Law Project is currently accepting applications from law students for summer 2026 clerkship positions. More information on how to apply can be found at nhlp.org/jobs

No matter how long we’ve lived here or what language we speak, our country has the resources to ensure that all of us have a safe place to call home. #HispanicHeritageMonth

#OTD in 1965, our government created HUD to help house our nation’s poor and working people, seniors, veterans, & kids. In the following years, HUD was chronically understaffed & underfunded, making it harder to keep folks stably housed.

Trump is considering declaring a national housing emergency, while at the same time doing everything he can to destroy the federal housing programs, seize even more control, & continue his unlawful power grab. Our executive director @shamusroller.bsky.social talked to @marketwatch.com about it.

TODAY: Join our government affairs director @noelleporter.bsky.social, @naehomelessness.bsky.social, and @evictionlab.bsky.social for the Combatting the Eviction and Homelessness Crisis panel, moderated by @ramirez.house.gov!

Billionaires are stealing from working families, funding violence, & fueling the largest wealth grab in U.S. history. Poor & working people keep our country running. We must fight for a housing system that puts people over profit & takes care of the poorest among us. #WorkersOverBillionaires

They know its unpopular and tried to hide it via late-night Friday news dump on a holiday weekend. We are unapologetic -- WE MUST FIGHT TO KEEP FAMILIES WHOLE👏AND👏HOUSED👏

"Trump & Turner are forcing public housing authorities to divert their limited resources away from affordable housing & towards wasteful policy designed to cause fear & hardship among immigrant families." -@nhlp.bsky.social's Marie Claire Tran-Leung

🕯️ #OTD 20 years ago, #HurricaneKatrina impacted #Louisiana forever, taking 1,000+ lives, uprooting communities & uncovering inequities we are still battling today. We recognize Katrina's impact as a human tragedy that continues to be worsened by decades of systemic neglect. #Katrina20

62 years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I have a dream” speech in Washington, DC during the March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom. We continue his fight today. Everyone should have the freedom to make a good living, care for our families, & live in a safe and affordable home.

Trump recently signed an EO that would forcibly institutionalize our unhoused neighbors, and put more people on the streets and in prison. “It is absurd to think that ending people’s right to autonomy will end homelessness,” said NHLP's Noelle Porter to @truthout.org.

⚠️Trump's HUD is threatening to take away federal funding from public housing authorities who protect immigrant families. 📣Our response: we must fight to keep families whole and housed. Read our statement ⬇️⬇️⬇️

What should you do when your HUD housing provider asks about your immigration status? Our Know Your Rights resource in English & Spanish can help HUD families with mixed immigration status figure out how to handle some of your housing provider’s requests. Read more here: nhlp.org/kyrdata

Whether we rent or own, we all deserve a safe place to call home. But Trump and the current admin are 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

Wrap up summer with our August newsletter coming out tomorrow! Sign up now to stay in the loop on all things housing justice ➡️ nhlp.org/newsletter

People need homes not handcuffs. Trump’s plan to institutionalize unhoused people with addiction or mental health issues will put more people on the street & in prison. This perpetuates a discriminatory system that harms unhoused Black people the most. We must fight back. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Trump’s HUD wants to take away housing from people who exceed strict time limits or do not meet harsh work requirements. On the anniversary of HUD’s Voucher Program, we promise to fight tooth and nail to protect this program and the people it serves.

"We have to redefine what safety means. We know that safe communities are communities where people have their needs met. And those needs include housing and support." Hear Jesse Rabinowitz of the Law Center discuss Trump's authoritarian takeover of DC on NPR's Code Switch : buff.ly/XxGEiTN

Tenants who pay their back rent to their housing authority can still get evictions filed on their record, making it harder to get a future apartment. NHLP’s Hannah Adams talked to @mainemorningstar.com about the fallout from eviction filings.

Our elders deserve to age with dignity in homes they can afford & communities they’ve been a part of for generations. But fixed incomes make it almost impossible to keep up with rising rents & seniors are the fastest-growing group of homeless people.

Everyone deserves a place to call home. The solution to homelessness is safe, affordable housing.

The Housing Choice Voucher Program helps house poor and working families, seniors, and veterans. But Trump and HUD are proposing massive cuts that would strip rental assistance from people who need it the most. NHLP’s Deb Thrope talked to @denverpost.com about how cuts would harm poor people.

Everyone deserves a safe place to call home. In some places, tenants can be evicted at any time. 30-day notice is a critical federal provision that protects tenants by requiring landlords to give them the time they need to fix issues with their rent before filing an eviction.

All of us should have the freedom to live where we want & take care of our families w/o fear of eviction. But Trump spreads fear & sows division based on what we look like or where we come from to distract from fixing the housing crisis & continue his unlawful power grab.

Virginia housing nonprofits and residents are monitoring federal cuts, fraying state safety nets (via @virginiamercury.com)

No matter if we rent or own, we all deserve the freedom to live in a safe & affordable home without fear of being evicted. But Trump wants to speed up evictions for HUD-tenants. NHLP spoke to @theintercept.com about Trump's plan to give more control to landlords & housing authorities.

We're hiring! The National Housing Law Project seeks a Communications Manager to help shape and share the story of our fight for everyone to live in a safe and stable home. Apply today at nhlp.org/jobs!

People in Maui are fighting to keep their homes after wildfires took everything. Forbearance would delay mortgage payments for a year “but it’s a temporary Band-Aid & kicks the can down the road” said NHLP’s Lisa Sitkin to @grist.org. Post disaster, our govt must keep people housed for the long run.

Trump began a federal takeover of DC today, testing the forced displacement of unhoused people. Locking up people you don’t don’t want to see is textbook authoritarianism. When a fascist tells you who they are, believe them. @jesserbnwtz.bsky.social: housingnothandcuffs.org/2025/08/11/h...

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.

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...

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

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."

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.

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...

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/

Our July newsletter is coming out tomorrow! Sign up now to stay in the loop on all things housing justice! nhlp.org/newsletter

🔊 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 ⬇️

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.

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...

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

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

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