Webinar September 17, 2021
COVID-19 Housing Assistance Updates for Advocates of Gender-Based Violence Survivors
Since early 2020, Congress has provided billions of dollars in COVID-19 assistance to aid individuals and families facing difficulties accessing and maintaining housing during the pandemic. Federal, state, and local governments have also enacted policies, such as eviction moratoriums, to help renters, who cannot pay rent during COVID-19, stay in their homes. This webinar will provide information and resources on critical housing issues, including:
the end of the federal eviction moratorium,
how to find emergency rental assistance in your area, and
overviews and updates on two key COVID-19 federal rental assistance programs - U.S. Treasury’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Emergency Housing Vouchers.
Free for members / $25 for non-members
All registrants will receive a recording of this webinar offering. Closed captions will be provided during the webinar. A transcript will be sent to all registrants afterwards.
SPEAKERS
Karlo Ng, Director of Legal Initiatives, National Alliance for Safe Housing, focuses on legal and policy strategies to ensure safe shelter and housing for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. Her work includes collaborating with housing providers, survivor advocates, and government agencies to implement the housing protections under the Violence Against Women Act. She further leads NASH’s initiatives on immigrant rights and linguistic justice. Karlo has an extensive background in advocating for survivors’ housing protections as well as providing national technical assistance and training on issues impacting the rights of survivors and immigrants in the federal housing programs. She has testified before the California legislature supporting the expansion of critical safeguards for survivors in housing. Karlo has further written numerous articles and served as the Managing Editor of the fourth edition of HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights. She has also litigated impact cases under the Fair Housing Act and related civil rights laws. Karlo serves on the Board of Directors of the National Low Income Housing Coalition. She holds a law degree from Northeastern University School of Law.
Renee Williams, Senior Attorney, National Housing Law Project, focuses on fair housing and equal access to housing issues, including national origin discrimination, housing access for persons with limited English proficiency, nuisance and crime-free housing ordinances, and the obligation to affirmatively further fair housing. Renee also leads our initiative focusing on the housing rights of domestic violence survivors and the implementation of the Violence Against Women Act housing protections. During law school, Renee worked as a summer associate at Relman, Dane & Colfax in Washington, D.C., and as a summer law clerk at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Birmingham, Alabama. Before law school, she worked as a paralegal in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. She graduated from Emory University and earned her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was a member of The University of Chicago Legal Forum journal.