Reposted by Shamus RollerNational Housing Law Project @nhlp.bsky.social · 05/05/2026We’re hiring! The National Housing Law Project seeks a Senior Attorney to lead our work on housing justice issues, with a focus on NHLP’s role as a California legal and advocacy support center. ➡️Apply today at www.nhlp.org/employment-opportunity 056
Reposted by Shamus RollerChi Chi Wu @chichiwu.bsky.social · 05/05/2026So thrilled for Brian Goldstone and this book. I hope it brings millions of new readers to it, especially policymakers. If you haven't yet, please read it 093
Reposted by Shamus RollerPeggy Bailey @peggybaileydc.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Need help understanding HUD’s proposed rule that would take rental assistance away from eligible citizens and immigrants? This summary explains and gives links to other resources. 062
Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social · 03/03/2026We are taking HUD to court for trying to eliminate the 30-day notice for eviction in HUD housing. If Trump’s HUD wants to eliminate crucial tenant protections, they have to go through us first. Filed with Legal Aid Society of Eastern Virginia.nhlp.orgTenants and Housing Justice Organizations Sue HUD for Stripping Critical Federal Tenant Protection | NHLP 021
Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Trump’s HUD has imperiled funds to crucial homelessness prevention programs. If you’re defending our communities from displacement and homelessness, read NHLP and National Homelessness Law Center's new toolkit here: www.nhlp.org/nhlp-publica...nhlp.orgToolkit for Defending Tenants Against Homelessness Prevention Cuts | NHLP 000
Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social · 27/01/2026We’re in a housing crisis, and Trump wants to kick subsidized tenants out of their homes. NHLP’s new factsheet lays out how these cuts will force families to jump through hoops: www.nhlp.org/our-initiati...nhlp.orgGet the Facts: Work Requirements and Time Limits Will Worsen Housing Instability | NHLP 000
Reposted by Shamus RollerMike Ludwig @mludwig.bsky.social · 14/01/2026In a rambling speech full of lies, Trump pledged to release a housing plan next week. Right. Pushing big $ out of the housing market is an interesting idea but won't make up for costs pushed up by tariffs, deportation of workers, and destruction of the safety net, says @shamusroller.bsky.social.truthout.orgTrump’s “Homes for People” Plan Distracts From Failing Policies, Experts SayTrump’s proposal to ban institutional investors from buying homes won’t make up for damage of tariffs and deportations. 5185
Reposted by Shamus RollerEric Dunn @corpkiller.bsky.social · 15/12/20252025 sucked. But I'm proud to have worked for an organization that helped it suck less. On to 2026. www.nhlp.org/yir2025nhlp.orgNational Housing Law Project Year in Review 2025 | NHLPIn 2025, the National Housing Law Project resisted the Trump administration’s unlawful power grab. Read on to learn more about what we accomplished. 042
Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social · 09/12/2025While the Trump administration spent 2025 tearing apart the systems that keep us housed, NHLP is fighting for a different future. We continue to imagine and build a housing system that puts people over profit. Read about it: www.nhlp.org/yir2025nhlp.orgNational Housing Law Project Year in Review 2025 | NHLPIn 2025, the National Housing Law Project resisted the Trump administration’s unlawful power grab. Read on to learn more about what we accomplished. 031
Reposted by Shamus RollerJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 07/08/20251. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely. Here's why.popular.infoWhy you might not know that 2024 was America's safest year since the 1960sAn overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year. 18658712931
Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social · 02/06/2025The squatter hysteria from last year is starting to produce what was always intended by the real estate industry - lawful tenants are being removed because they don't have a written lease. www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...wsbtv.comAtlanta tenants say they’re being wrongly labeled as squatters amid unsafe living conditionsOn Friday, some tenants returned home to find their belongings outside. 110
Reposted by Shamus RollerDavid Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 16/05/2025For the June issue of @thenation.com, I wrote about the Harper’s letter 5 years later, and how under a quarter of its signatories have spoken out about Mahmoud Khalil and other campus activists imprisoned for speech.thenation.comThey All Signed the “Harper’s” Letter. Where Are They Now?Many of those who were loudest in denouncing cancel culture then are now curiously silent in the face of Donald Trump’s assaults on free speech. 24918236
Reposted by Shamus RollerEviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social · 28/04/2025New Study 🔔: More than 7M Americans face eviction each year. But if they go to court, most do it alone, without a lawyer. Our researchers studied the initiatives that are trying to change this reality, known as Right to Counsel programs or RTC. evictionlab.org/disrupting-t...evictionlab.orgDisrupting the Eviction System: Tenant Right to CounselAs a growing number of jurisdictions consider adopting RTC—and as researchers seek to analyze the effects of such programs—it is critical to understand their challenges and the keys to their success. ... 188
Reposted by Shamus RollerRepresentative Ryan Clancy @ryanclancywi.bsky.social · 23/04/2025MADISON, Wis. – Yesterday, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and other publications reported that Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan apparently attempted to protect a defendant from ICE agents trying to detain that defendant. (1/6) 421946784
Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social · 24/04/2025I got to meet Dolores Huerta yesterday. Doesn't get much better than that. 040
Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social · 24/04/2025This Fair Housing Month we are defending hard-won protections. At @NHLP we’re fighting for a different future. While this moment is hard, we must imagine & build a housing system that puts people over profit. Read more of our thoughts here: conta.cc/3FDXnSaconta.ccWe're fighting for a different futureEmail from The National Housing Law Project Dear Friends of NHLP, I’m writing to you on the cusp of Fair Housing Month. April commemorates the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, and the promise 020
Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social · 18/04/2025The CFPB was created in the wake of the Great Recession and the foreclosure crisis - to help prevent a crisis like that from happening again and to protect us - consumers. Bring on the predatory lenders - just what we all needed. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...nytimes.comMass Layoffs Hit Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Gift Article)The agency, which has returned $21 billion to consumers since its inception, could lose 1,500 of its 1,700 employees, a union warned. 041
Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social · 17/04/2025I hope that Congress ignores Trump's budget proposals much like they did in the first term but there's less spine in Congress this time around. Decimating the voucher program would make all of our lives worse. 001
Reposted by Shamus Roller◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 11/04/2025In February, DOGE took screenshots of affordable housing providers' websites and LinkedIn profiles that showed terms associated with diversity and equity — then canceled millions of dollars in contracts with those groups. That funding was just reinstated on appeal: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comTrump DEI Purge Hits Affordable Housing GroupsMillions of dollars in affordable housing contracts were canceled after a DOGE review of their websites and social media for terms linked to equity and diversity. 031
Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social · 07/04/2025In Vienna studying social housing. Starting with the grandma of them all. 020
Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Relman Colfax founder John Relman on the attacks on lawyers and why to fight. www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-...commondreams.orgBig Law Is Winning in Court—Now Is Not the Time to Fold | Common DreamsThe law firms fighting back against Trump’s executive orders are winning, and those cutting deals with the White House are suffering irreparable damage behind the scenes. 000
Reposted by Shamus RollerThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/03/2025Many conservatives who fought against cancel culture on college campuses and championed free speech are now behind a growing crackdown on political expression at universities, in ways that try to sidestep the Constitution’s free-speech guarantees.nytimes.comRepublicans Once Championed Free Speech on Campus. Now, Not So Much.President Trump and state politicians are pushing new laws and policies that crack down on curriculum, protests and speakers. 161991262
Reposted by Shamus RollerBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Chris Bergquist worked in HUD’s Fair Housing office. One of his first cases: a disabled woman who couldn’t shower because her landlord refused to make her unit wheelchair accessible. His team forced compliance. Now he’s been fired in Trump’s purge—as Fair Housing staff face 76.5% cuts nationwide.wabe.orgBefore the mass firings, this Georgia-based federal worker prevented housing discrimination in the SoutheastIncluded in the ongoing purge of federal workers by the Trump administration were employees at the Atlanta regional office of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. One federal worker's... 4531203
Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social · 15/03/2025What’s at risk with CFPB: “Last week, the agency’s consumer response team was called back to work to tackle a backlog of 16,000 complaints, including dozens from homeowners facing imminent foreclosures.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/b...nytimes.comLeft for Dead, the C.F.P.B. Inches Back to LifeCourt orders have paused, and at times reversed, the Trump administration’s efforts to shut down the consumer watchdog agency. 021
Reposted by Shamus RollerJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/03/2025NEW: Biggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CR talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bigge...talkingpointsmemo.comBiggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CRFederal workers obviously don’t like government shutdowns. Most of them are furloughed.... 9550841667
Reposted by Shamus RollerAdam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Trump's unprecedented retaliatory efforts against the Perkins Coie law firm have triggered the EVEN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL alarm, whose editorial page notes that Trump's actions "breaks a cornerstone principle of American justice going back to John Adams and the Founders."wsj.comOpinion | Trump, Perkins Coie and John AdamsThe President breaks a bedrock legal principle by targeting the law firm for representing clients he doesn’t like. 14416
Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social · 08/03/2025My friend Dzovag’s beautiful piece about serving veterans as a doctor for the VA and why that can’t be summed up in bullet points. (Gift article )sfchronicle.comElon Musk wants me to justify my VA job? Here’s what I do to care for California veteransI work as a part-time doctor for the VA, treating the men and women who have served our country. The work I do can’t be distilled in bullet points. 010
Reposted by Shamus RollerAshton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Trans people have long warned that most of the victims of anti-trans laws and policies would be cis women and girls who don't have the "right look." 4133851107
Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social · 07/03/2025"Calvin Bentley still recalls how he felt when he finally moved his wife and 7-year-old son into a public housing development in Kansas City, Missouri: 'Liberated.'” 023
Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social · 07/03/2025“Let’s just be real, if you really don’t have much housing, you probably don’t have much money to eat either,” Calvin Bentley said. “And if you were driving, you probably don’t have money for gas either.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comFamily fears federal housing cuts could jeopardize their Missouri homeThe Department of Housing and Urban Development helped Calvin and Symone Bentley put a roof over their heads, but DOGE downsizing is making them nervous. 001
Reposted by Shamus Roller◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Los Angeles has now stopped accepting new applications for housing vouchers due to uncertainty in Washington — exactly what @patrickcsisson.bsky.social warned might happen www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comCuts to Section 8 Housing Assistance Loom Amid HUD UncertaintyThe Housing Choice Voucher program, a rent lifeline for low-income families, faces a funding shortfall as layoffs target the federal housing agency. 314664
Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social · 05/03/2025With the tariffs, I keep thinking about the high percentage of lumber that comes from Canada. Has anyone seen data or research about how this will affect housing prices? 110
Reposted by Shamus RollerDan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 04/03/2025It's the Corporate Financial Protection Bureau now...cnbc.comCFPB drops lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo over Zelle fraudSince Acting Director Russell Vought has taken over the CFPB, the agency has dropped at least a half dozen cases brought by his predecessor, Rohit Chopra. 0368
Reposted by Shamus RollerNational Housing Law Project @nhlp.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Everyday people are the backbone of our economy & they are hurting. The rent eats first – people’s budgets are consumed by high housing costs. For working families, rent hikes can "cut into either medicine or food...or push them into homelessness,” said @shamusroller.bsky.social to @usatoday.com.usatoday.comRent is rising sharply in the most affordable areas, stressing low, middle-income tenantsRent jumped the past year in the least costly areas, straining low, middle-income residents. The rise defies a national slowdown in rent hikes 043
Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social · 04/03/2025HUD cancelled many of the Fair Housing Initiatives Program grants. FHIP funds dynamic work to enforce the Fair Housing Act. 76% reduction proposed in the staffing for the Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity office. Many contractors cut under DEI executive order. Direct attack on civil rights. 032
Reposted by Shamus RollerHarvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 03/03/2025A first-ever analysis of fire death rates in modern four-to-six-story buildings with only one stairway shows that residents are not at greater risk, and such buildings could provide much-needed housing. @pewtrusts.org www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-...pewtrusts.orgSmall Single-Stairway Apartment Buildings Have Strong Safety RecordPolicymakers could increase the supply of multifamily housing in their states and localities by revising outdated building codes that require more than one stairway in small apartment buildings. If en... 010833
Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Fascism is bad enough - does it have to be so embarrassing too? 050
Reposted by Shamus RollerAlliance for Housing Justice @aforhj.org · 26/02/2025🚨 The Office of Fair Housing & Equal Opportunity’s account on X has been DELETED. This administration is making its priorities clear: protecting landlords who discriminate & turning a blind eye to tenants facing injustice. 12010
Reposted by Shamus RollerNational Housing Law Project @nhlp.bsky.social · 25/02/2025“My real worry is that very soon we’ll start to see homeless service agencies that go belly up, & there will be formerly homeless people that are served by these programs who are getting forced back onto the streets,” says NHLP @shamusroller.bsky.social. We need to protect tenants & save our homes. 188
Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social · 25/02/2025The CFPB has been the most dynamic and effective government agency over the last few years. Literally doing what’s in its name - protecting consumers. 001
Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Staffing cuts at HUD will mean rent not getting paid, providers not getting paid, slower disaster response. www.notus.org/policy/housi...notus.orgHousing Department Staffing Cuts Could Start Impacting Services Within the Month, Union WarnsThe union that represents more than 5,000 HUD employees is estimating the reduction in staff could hit as many as half of the agency’s workers. 154
Reposted by Shamus RollerNational Housing Law Project @nhlp.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Massive HUD cuts could mean working tenants and families lose their homes. NHLP executive director @shamusroller.bsky.social discussed the potential fallout for tenants with @apnews.com.apnews.comTrump administration looks to slash HUD workers tackling the housing crisisThe Trump administration’s proposal to layoff half of federal workers at the nation’s housing agency is targeting employees who support disaster recovery, rental subsidies, discrimination investigatio... 053
Reposted by Shamus Roller◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 19/02/2025The FHA insures hundreds of thousands of mortgages each year and returns billions of dollars to the US Treasury — billions with a B. DOGE is slashing its workforce by 44%. Read our story here: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comFederal Mortgage Insurer to Lay Off Nearly Half Its WorkforceThe Trump administration is planning to lay off at least 40% of the workers at the federal agency that provides mortgage insurance on loans for people who otherwise wouldn’t qualify for one, according... 23629
Reposted by Shamus RollerElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 19/02/2025Trump’s shutdown of the JFK Library won’t lower egg prices or make housing more affordable, but it’s part of a retribution tour designed to distract from his agenda to enrich the wealthy and well-connected at the expense of everyone else. 551294190
Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social · 15/02/2025More details on the erasure of housing research at HUD. 095
Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Many HUD staff on probationary status and some others were cut from staff today, receiving notice around 4:00 ET. So many great HUD career staff have been lost through forced resignations and layoffs and that's before the major cuts to staffing begin. 032