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President and CEO, National Low Income Housing Coalition @nlihc . Formerly: @enterprisenow @hudgov @oxfamamerica @mahomeless & @peacecorps

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Diane Yentel

2 years

The cruelty of criminalizing people with no homes always takes my breath away, no matter how expected. These laws do nothing to address homelessness, they merely punish those experiencing it. We could choose instead to end homelessness.

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Daily Loud

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Starting today it will be a crime to sleep on state-owned land in Missouri. That includes streets, parks and underneath bridges and overpasses. You will be fined $750 and face 15 days in jail.

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Diane Yentel

4 years

GREAT news! President @JoeBiden makes funding for non-congregate sheltering of people who are homeless 100% reimbursable! Currently FEMA pays 75% & states/cities have to pay rest (& often can’t). We’ve pushed for this for 10 months.

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Memorandum to Extend Federal Support to Governors' Use of the National Guard to Respond to COVID-19...

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY SUBJECT: Memorandum to Extend Federal Support to Governors' Use of the National

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Diane Yentel

3 years

A thing I learned today: Rep Jim Jordan does not like being fact checked. He and his staff erupted with outrage (shouting “that’s ridiculous! That’s outrageous! That’s just wrong!”) when I noted what he said was false. Never experienced anything like it in Congress.

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Diane Yentel

2 years

Today, President Biden announces a Housing Supply Action Plan to help close the housing supply gap in 5 years. 🧵1/9

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Diane Yentel

2 years

❗️ The White House just announced a set of administrative actions and a Blueprint to advance a Renters Bill of Rights. (🧵)

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Diane Yentel

3 years

🚨🚨🚨YES! @POTUS to extend CDC eviction moratorium, for renters in communities w/surging COVID (covering 90% of renters throughout the country), through October 3! 🚨🚨🚨

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Diane Yentel

4 years

🚨🚨WE HAVE A DEAL! 🚨🚨 It includes: ✅ 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!

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Diane Yentel

5 years

This is extraordinary. @SenWarren talking about solutions to the housing crisis on primetime @cnn #WarrenTownHall is, without a doubt, the most we’ve ever had affordable housing talked about on the presidential campaign trail. And we’re just getting started!

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Diane Yentel

2 years

The administration’s commitment to using federal transportation funds to reduce restrictive local zoning laws, which inhibit construction of apartments and are often deeply rooted in racial exclusion, is especially promising.

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Diane Yentel

4 years

🚨The CDC and HHS are establishing a broad moratorium on evictions for nonpayment of rent through end of the year. 🚨 The moratorium applies to all tenants who meet certain eligibility requirements and present a signed declaration to their LLs. 1/

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Diane Yentel

3 years

750,000 households is about 1.9 million people.

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3 years

GOLDMAN SACHS: "We believe roughly 750k households will ultimately be evicted later this year under current policy." (Evictions and the Economy as the Moratoriums End)

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Diane Yentel

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. @BernieSanders has mentioned it at every single debate - tonight, he mentioned it 3 times.

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I think Bernie Sanders was the only candidate to mention homelessness crisis on the same day the governor of California spent his entire State of the State on the crisis -

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Diane Yentel

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You didn’t provide the needed affordable housing. You’re choosing political expediency over real solutions. That’s not leadership, it’s cowardice. This will only worsen homelessness.

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Gavin Newsom

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No more excuses. We’ve provided the time. We’ve provided the funds. Now it’s time for locals to do their job.

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Diane Yentel

5 years

Glad to stand with @SenSanders , @AOC , residents of @NYCHA and others to call for a major investment to preserve and improve our country’s public housing infrastructure. Thanks too to @SenWarren and @SenJeffMerkley for cosponsoring the visionary bill.

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Diane Yentel

2 years

Reminder: homelessness *is* a choice. Not of the people who experience it, but of the policymakers who create, sustain and exacerbate it. We can choose otherwise.

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Diane Yentel

5 years

Another day, another bold housing plan from a leading presidential candidate! Thank you @BernieSanders for laying out your vision to end homelessness and housing poverty. #OurHomesOurVotes2020

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Bernie Sanders

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We have an affordable housing crisis and Trump is making it much worse. That is why today we are proposing the most progressive housing plan in history. Safe, decent, affordable housing should not be a privilege. It should be a right. #HousingForAll

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5 years

The lowest income people are often the hardest hit by disasters – in part because they are least financially able to evacuate prior to a disaster. 1/

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BREAKING: South Carolina's governor orders a mandatory evacuation of his state's entire coast as Hurricane Dorian threatens.

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Diane Yentel

1 year

At last week’s hearing, Senator Vance said familiar mistruths about homelessness - that substance abuse is root cause & that homeless people should be required to address addiction before receiving housing assistance. I was very glad to respond for the record.

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Diane Yentel

3 years

Absolutely maddening. Landlords spend a year yelling that eviction moratoriums are unfair b/c they need to be paid rent. Advocates mobilize & Congress provides an unprecedented $46.5B for rent arrears - and landlords refuse to take it.

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Why Some Landlords Don’t Want Any of the $50 Billion in Rent Assistance

A federal program designed to help people avoid eviction by paying their rent is running into an unexpected hurdle: Some landlords are turning down the payment, saying it comes with too many condit...

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Diane Yentel

2 years

If you care about the affordable housing crisis, be sure to watch Last Week Tonight with John Oliver this weekend! It’ll be a good one!

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Diane Yentel

2 years

Step 1: Implement local zoning laws, make it nearly impossible to build apartments Step 2: Watch rents rise, increasingly crushing lowest income people Step 3: Complain that more people are becoming homeless Step 4: Criminalize people who are homeless.

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Jeremy B. White

2 years

Homeless camping bans driving the agenda in California cities right now

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Diane Yentel

8 years

We spend more to subsidize the homes of richest 7 million than we do to assist 55 million lowest income families.

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Diane Yentel

2 years

I’m sometimes asked, “what happened to the eviction tsunami? If it didn’t happen, was the prediction wrong?” I’m equal parts frustrated and amused when I’m asked this, because - to me - the answer is so obvious. 🧵

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Diane Yentel

3 years

I’ve had a big uptick in hate VMs and emails sent to me this week, most with deepening venom/threat. Angry about our efforts to extend the eviction moratorium. I got one this weekend that chilled me to my bones and required a call to the FBI.

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Diane Yentel

1 year

I’m at McPherson Square, witnessing the Biden Admin forcibly removing unhoused people from an encampment, ahead of schedule and well before most unhoused people here have safe alternatives. 1/x

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Diane Yentel

4 years

🚨JUST POSTED: CDC order extending the eviction moratorium through March 31, 2021. Please share far and wide!

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Diane Yentel

5 years

I’ve been to Skid Row 3 times in the last 2 years and today as I walked with @JulianCastro I was struck by the increasing number of children living amidst the trauma, squalor and chaos. Our country’s failure to act to end homelessness should shame us all.

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Diane Yentel

2 years

As rents skyrocket, remember: a $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9% increase in homelessness. Some states have laws in place to prevent price (rent) gouging after natural disasters - we should do the same nationally during a global pandemic.

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Diane Yentel

5 years

Cutting housing programs created homelessness. #The80sIn5Words

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Diane Yentel

3 years

Something that’s getting lost in convo on slow ERA spending. Many landlords are refusing to accept the money. There are 2 main reasons: 1) those in hot rental market have new incentive to evict - raise rent for new tenants, make more $ in the long run.

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Diane Yentel

2 years

The administration also will take actions to support manufactured housing, ADUs and small-scale developments, and will streamline and reform federal financing and funding sources to help lower costs and speed development.

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Diane Yentel

3 years

2 terrible fires in a week, one in public housing, the other in project based S8. Devastating loss of life, many unanswered questions. One thing is clear: everyone deserves - and too many people in this country don’t yet have - decent, safe, affordable homes.

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Diane Yentel

4 years

To understand systemic racism in housing, don’t go first to white authors that many recommend (whose books are good & important). Start w/brilliant analysis from Black and brown writers and thinkers. Here are some must reads:

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Diane Yentel

2 years

“If a community gets federal housing $, it's not enough to say it won't discriminate. It has to take meaningful steps to overcome patterns of segregation & give everybody a fair shot to live there." - @POTUS New AFFH rule coming as soon as this week.

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Diane Yentel

2 years

The Biden administration also makes important commitment to ensuring that more government-owned supply of homes and other housing goes to owners who will live in them – or non-profits who will rehab them – not to large institutional investors.

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Diane Yentel

2 years

Evictions spiking as assistance, protections disappear.

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Diane Yentel

4 years

❗️❗️YES! @JoeBiden announces that he’ll take action next week to extend the eviction moratorium!

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Diane Yentel

4 years

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/

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Diane Yentel

4 years

🚨Final deal! ✅ $4 billion in Emergency Solutions Grants to assist homeless shelters and outreach workers keep people who are homeless safer from coronavirus. ✅ $5B in CDBG, can be used for rental assistance ✅ Public Housing: $685M (Thread)

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Diane Yentel

5 years

No. Affordable housing solves homelessness.

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Enterprise Resources

@Enterprise_KIS

5 years

Can a city solve #homelessness with an app? via @smartcitiesdive

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Diane Yentel

2 years

A Tenant Protection Bureau, as @SenWarren has proposed, could have prevented the unlawful evictions of some of the most marginalized tenants during the pandemic, and could hold predatory corporate landlords accountable and prevent rent gouging today.

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Diane Yentel

4 years

Vile, despicable, racist.

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Diane Yentel

2 years

An eviction tsunami didn’t happen not because we wrongly predicted the risk of one, but because *advocacy works* and resulted in federal/state/local governments acting in unprecedented ways to prevent historic evictions.

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“Our 5 priorities must be included. Childcare, Medicare expansion, immigration, HOUSING, climate change. These are all essential priorities.”- ⁦ @RepJayapal ⁩

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Diane Yentel

4 years

To all the landlords who are calling, DM’ing, emailing me to say/ask/yell that eviction moratoriums need to be paired with $ for rent, I want to assure you that YES I KNOW AND THAT’S WHY I’VE BEEN FIGHTING FOR IT FOR 10 MONTHS. Please stop calling, k? Thanks.

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Diane Yentel

5 years

What?! This is absurd. The answers to both are obvious. Housing. Gun control. You’re welcome.

@JohnCornyn

Senator John Cornyn

5 years

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. Sadly, there are some issues, like homelessness and these shootings, where we simply don't have all the answers.

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Diane Yentel

5 years

🚨🚨We already knew that HUD’s proposed rule to evict mixed-status families from subsidized housing had nothing to do with alleviating the housing crisis and everything to do with instilling fear in immigrants. Now, we have HUD’s own words to prove it. 1/

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Diane Yentel

6 years

2 weeks later, nothing has changed. FEMA now says trailers will be delivered to Panama City next week - nearly 6 weeks after Hurricane Michael decimated most homes in the community. A pretty stunning level of FEMA ineptitude, even by current FEMA standards.

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Glenn Thrush

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It's been three weeks since Hurricane Michael, and Panama City residents are begging FEMA for a comprehensive plan to house 10-20k people made homeless by the storm. “There should be a playbook for something like this, but apparently there isn’t.”

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Diane Yentel

2 years

❗️Just published: Out of Reach - The High Cost of Housing. Rents are far out of reach for the country’s lowest income and most marginalized people, and the problem is worsening. Read more & find Housing Wage for your state/city:metro:

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Diane Yentel

1 year

Time limits for food assistance. Expanded ineffective work requirements for food & cash assistance. Effectively cutting (by not providing needed inflationary costs increase) rental assistance during already worsening homelessness crisis. Cruel & shortsighted.

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Jeff Stein

1 year

Summary of deal as I understand it: — Debt ceiling raised 2 years — Domestic programs frozen next year, up 1% ‘25. Inflation-adjusted cut — Boosts defense, VA $ — Some tightening of work requirements on TANF, SNAP — Energy permitting (details tbd) — Claw back some new IRS $

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Diane Yentel

2 years

🛑 Stop calling middle income housing “workforce housing.” It’s described as housing for teachers, firefighters, police – predominately white professions - & often is a euphemism for apartments for white people. Also - people w/the lowest incomes work!

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Diane Yentel

2 years

Reminder: homelessness is a choice. Not of those who experience it, but of the policymakers who create, sustain and worsen it. We can choose otherwise.

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Diane Yentel

14 days

Governor Newsom is now parroting Donald Trump. Not once in this video does Newsom mention the unhoused *people* living in encampments. It’s all “push the paradigm, clear the encampments, public safety, clean up the sites.” Appalling.

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Local governments now have the tools they need to address the decades-long issue of homelessness. Today, we are issuing an executive order that directs state agencies & urges locals to address encampments while connecting those living in them to housing & supportive services.

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Diane Yentel

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I’ve dreaded this day for almost 2 years & did all I could to prevent it (vaccine, booster, masks, distancing). My older son & I tested positive and we’re symptomatic. Holding out hope that our symptoms stay mild & that my younger son & husband stay healthy.

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Diane Yentel

4 years

. @SecretaryCarson says eviction proceedings “typically take about a year,” proving once again that the Secretary of Housing knows painfully little about housing.

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Carson Says Relief for Renters Up to Congress - Business Journal Daily | The Youngstown Publishing...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – During a visit to Youngstown Thursday, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson briefly touched on the national eviction moratorium issued by the CDC in Septemb...

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Diane Yentel

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Biden-Harris Administration Announces Immediate Steps to Increase Affordable Housing Supply | The White House

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FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Immediate Steps to Increase Affordable Housing...

Immediate Steps Supplement the Biden-Harris Administration’s Push for Historic, Long-Term Investments in New Housing as Part of the Build Back Better

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Diane Yentel

3 years

I made it onto Room Rater! My pandemic experience is complete.

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Room Rater

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3 years

Books. Journals. We are pro plate. Needs bigger art. 8/10 @dianeyentel

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Diane Yentel

3 years

❗️The US House of Representatives passed the Build Back Better Act❗️ It includes $150 BILLION for affordable housing, w/70% targeted to our top priorities: ✅ $65B public housing preservation! ✅ $25B rental assistance! ✅ $15B nat’l Housing Trust Fund!

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Diane Yentel

4 years

🚨That wave of evictions and spike in homelessness that we’ve been warning about for months? It’s starting.🚨 Without Congressional action and #RentReliefNow , it will become a tsunami. (Thread) 1/

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Diane Yentel

4 years

I can’t stop thinking of this picture of Las Vegas response to a homeless shelter closing due to confirmed COVID-19 case. They gave the homeless shelter residents a slab of concrete to sleep on. Are we, as a country, ok with this? This is not ok.

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Diane Yentel

2 years

❗️The recent exorbitant rent hikes can’t be justified & shouldn’t be allowed. The Biden administration should take immediate action to stop rent gouging, and there’s both clear need and precedent for action. 🧵

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Rents are up more than 30 percent in some cities, forcing millions to find another place to live

Rising rents are also expected to be a driving force in inflation this year and have been an ongoing policy challenge for the Biden administration.

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Diane Yentel

4 years

🚨The lowest income people are often hardest hit by disasters – in part b/c they’re least financially able to evacuate prior to a disaster. Many low-income renters are hanging on by a thread from COVID-19 financial fallout. Many can’t afford to evacuate. 1/

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Eric Zerkel

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750,000+ people under mandatory evacuations now in Louisiana & Texas combined #laura

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Diane Yentel

3 years

Classic.

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Diane Yentel

3 years

🚨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.

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Diane Yentel

3 years

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.

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🚨🚨 @POTUS announces final framework for #BuildBackBetterAct . $150B for housing w/70% deeply targeted to our top priorities: ✅ $65B public housing preservation! ✅ $25B rental assistance! ✅ $15B nat’l Housing Trust Fund!

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Diane Yentel

3 years

❗️Court order vacating the CDC eviction moratorium has been stayed pending appeal❗️ Translation: the CDC eviction moratorium remains in effect!

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Diane Yentel

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❗️Biden admin will extend CDC eviction moratorium thru June. The moratorium was set to expire on 3/31.❗️ Unfortunately, @CDCDirector doesn’t strengthen order, despite obvious need. Federal lawsuits complicate things. CFPB will be more active on enforcement.

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Diane Yentel

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What an absurd take. The urgency is to get people safely housed - not to forcibly remove them with no alternatives. James, where do you think people go when an encampment is swept? McPherson Square encampment began when another was cleared 2 blocks away.

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James Hohmann

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New Washington Post Editorial to lead tomorrow's opinion page: It is time to clear out the McPherson Square homeless encampment. Anyone who spends any time in downtown DC will appreciate the urgency:

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Diane Yentel

2 years

Just received my early copy of Matt Desmond’s new book, very excited to dig in!

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Diane Yentel

3 years

The short-term solution: direct to tenant assistance. Give ERA as cash assistance to tenants to clear debt &, if needed, get rehoused. Long-term solutions: universal housing vouchers & robust renter protections from just cause evictions to right to counsel.

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Diane Yentel

2 years

President Biden continues to call on Congress to enact a reconciliation bill that includes #BBB ’s targeted housing investments including: $25B for 300k+ new rental assistance vouchers; $65B to preserve public housing; and $15B in the national HTF.

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Diane Yentel

4 years

❗️Today, @JoeBiden will sign an EO asking CDC Director to extend the eviction moratorium through March and work w/Congress to further extend it through Sept. After the CDC Director extends it, she will seek input on needed improvements to the moratorium. 1/

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Diane Yentel

4 years

FEMA should activate in OR, CA, WA & get unsheltered homeless people into safety NOW. This is extraordinarily dangerous for people living in tents, cars, RVs, on sidewalks. Many have underlying health conditions or are seniors, now breathing in ash & smoke.

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4 years

Update: it's gotten worse.

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Diane Yentel

4 years

But while an eviction moratorium is essential, it is a half-measure that extends a financial cliff for renters to fall off when the moratorium expires and back rent is owed. This action delays but does not prevent evictions.

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Diane Yentel

2 years

As rents rise, homelessness increases, and public housing deteriorates, robust federal investments & actions are badly needed and long overdue. I commend @POTUS for taking significant action - but the administration cannot solve the crisis on its own.

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Diane Yentel

3 years

One Way to Get People Off the Streets: Buy Hotels

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Diane Yentel

3 years

🚨 House Ds considering voting - today or tomorrow- to extend the eviction moratorium through Dec 31. With the Delta variant surging and with President Biden's urging, Congress must act NOW to keep tenants stably housed.🚨

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Diane Yentel

2 years

Here’s the Biden plan:

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President Biden Announces New Actions to Ease the Burden of Housing Costs | The White House

New Biden-Harris Administration Housing Supply Action Plan To Help Close the Housing Supply Gap in Five Years As President Biden said last week, tackling

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Diane Yentel

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❗️President Biden extends 100% reimbursement of non-congregate sheltering (hotels/motels) for vulnerable populations, including people experiencing homelessness and people with disabilities, through Dec 31❗️

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Memorandum on Maximizing Assistance to Respond to COVID-19 | The White House

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

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Diane Yentel

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UPDATE: We identified and mapped all expired (or soon to expire) @HUDgov contracts for affordable housing. Together, the dots represent ~150,000 deeply poor seniors & people w/disabilities whose homes are at risk from #shutdown2018 .

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Diane Yentel

2 years

Imagine thinking the best way to address homelessness is to cut down trees that provide shade. Imagine the vacuous cruelty.

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southpaw

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A New Jersey town cut down all the shade trees in its central square to dissuade unhoused people from spending time there.

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Diane Yentel

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Poverty is a policy choice. Evictions are a policy choice. Homelessness is a policy choice.

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holy moly, child poverty rate rose from all-time low of 5.2% in 2021 to 12.4% (!!!) in 2022, reflecting end of temporary child allowance and other programs.

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Diane Yentel

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Today we published #TheGap24 . There are fewer than 4 affordable and available rental homes for every 10 extremely low-income renters. *This* is the root cause of homelessness and the urgent rental crisis that must be solved. Read:

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Diane Yentel

3 years

Get yourself the self-confidence of a man on Twitter correcting a woman about her area of expertise.

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Diane Yentel

8 months

❗️New HUD report shows highest homelessness on record. We’ve repeatedly warned of this increase. When rents skyrocket amidst a severe shortage of affordable housing & a shredded safety net, more people become homeless. It really is that simple -& preventable.

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Diane Yentel

3 years

Reminder: space heaters and overcrowding are symptoms of systemic failures, not individual fault.

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Diane Yentel

3 years

2 terrible fires in a week, one in public housing, the other in project based S8. Devastating loss of life, many unanswered questions. One thing is clear: everyone deserves - and too many people in this country don’t yet have - decent, safe, affordable homes.

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Diane Yentel

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HUD has drafted legislation to increase rents for the lowest income seniors, people with disabilities and families living in subsidized homes, & to allow Public Housing Agencies to implement work requirements. A few reasons why this a terrible idea: 1/

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Diane Yentel

2 years

We know how to end homelessness. Communities do it every day. What they can’t do is stem the tide of people *becoming* homeless. In LA, 205 people/day are moved from homelessness into housing. On same day, 225 people become homeless.

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States make sleeping outside illegal as homelessness climbs - Marketplace

The pandemic and skyrocketing housing costs are worsening homelessness. But making it a crime may make it harder for people to find housing.

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Diane Yentel

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I’ve heard this from landlords again and again throughout the pandemic, and have yet to see a shred of evidence. No data, no proof, just contemptuous anecdotes and stories about the new mythical welfare queen.

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I’ve heard this from so many landlords. Tenants can pay their rent, they just choose not to. Landlords say tenants just ghosted on them when the moratorium came down. Some landlords don’t want rent relief, they want to punish those tenants.

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Diane Yentel

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6m+ renter households are behind on rent & at heightened risk of eviction when moratorium ends on 6/30. If Biden admin allows moratorium to expire before emergency rental assistance $ reaches renters, there’ll be a historic wave of evictions in summer & fall.

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Diane Yentel

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Congress must also act w/similar urgency & quickly enact BBB’s transformative and badly needed housing investments. Only through a combination of administrative action and robust federal funding can the country truly resolve its affordable housing crisis.

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Diane Yentel

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After Hurricane Harvey, white families in higher income neighborhoods received about $60,000 per resident of rebuilding assistance. Black families in poorer neighborhoods received, on average, $84/person:

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Diane Yentel

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The study, led by Dr. Kathryn Leifheit from UCLA, found that evictions led to a total of 433,700 excess COVID-19 cases and 10,700 additional deaths in the U.S. from the beginning of the pandemic until the CDC's national order in September.

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A wave of evictions is on the horizon. What impact could they have on kids' education?

When a federal order limiting evictions expires at the end of the year, millions of Americans face the risk of losing their homes. Experts say it could have a ripple effect on kids trying to learn.

www.cbsnews.com

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Diane Yentel

4 years

Thank you for the many calls to Congress - it worked! Bipartisan agreement extends CDC moratorium through January, and pairs it with $25B in emergency rental assistance.

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Diane Yentel

4 years

❗️Reminder: CARES Act eviction moratorium covered only 30% of renters. CDC moratorium, if improved/enforced, would cover all impacted renters. Congress needs to extend CDC moratorium to prevent tsunami of evictions. Reinstating CARES moratorium won’t do.

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Diane Yentel

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🚨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!

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Diane Yentel

5 years

. @BetoORourke out today with a big, bold plan for the affordable housing crisis! Thank you Beto for laying out your vision to end homelessness and housing poverty. #OurHomesOurVotes2020

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Our Plan to Support Homeownership, Increase Affordable and Sustainable Housing, Address the Legacy…

Housing is a basic human right.

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Diane Yentel

3 years

As another – and possibly the worst yet - wave of COVID-19 begins its exponential growth in the U.S, I am deeply concerned about the impacts on low-income renters and people experiencing homelessness. 🧵(1/14)

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Diane Yentel

5 years

“If we were to look at transcripts for the last 40-50 years from the Republican & Democratic debates, I bet there hasn't even been one question in the major debate about the issue of housing," @JulianCastro said. "We're trying to change that this year."

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Des Moines Register

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"We see very clearly that there's this housing affordability crisis," says @JulianCastro .

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Diane Yentel

4 years

Finally! This is great news.

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Matt Haney

4 years

It's official--FEMA will reimburse Shelter in Place hotels for duration of the emergency to bring vulnerable people off the streets into hotels. This is huge. We should keep the hotels open, as our recently passed law will do, and we should expand it. Bring people inside.

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Diane Yentel

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The longer #shutdown2018 goes on, the more low income seniors, people with disabilities, families and others will be hard hit, & the more the housing crisis will be exacerbated. Here's what we know about impacts on tenants in subsidized housing. 1/

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