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Plan to expand child tax credit offers hope along with direct payments Cloe Poisson :: C-HIT.ORG Chinara Johnson is pictured with her children, Zavad Morton, 5, Azania Johnson, 8 and Zakai Morton, 5 (twin brother) (l-r) near her apartment building in downtown New Haven, When her car started making a noise more than a year ago, Chinara Johnson parked the vehicle and hasn’t used it since. As a New Haven mother of 5-year-old twin boys, one of whom is on the autism spectrum, and an 8-year-old daughter, Johnson doesn’t have the money to get the car running properly again. She also didn’t h...

Plan to expand child tax credit offers hope, along with direct payments Lisa Backus, Conn. Health I-Team Writer March 3, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Chinara Johnson is pictured with her children, from left, Zavad Morton, 5, Azania Johnson, 8, and Zakai Morton, 5, near her apartment building in downtown New Haven, Feb. 26, 2021.Cloe PoissonShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Chinara Johnson is pictured with her children, from left, Zavad Morton, 5, Azania Johnson, 8, and Zakai Morton, 5, near her apartment building in downtown New Haven, Feb. 26, 2021.Cloe PoissonShow MoreShow Less 3of3 When her car s...

Renters can’t stay and they can’t go “We didn't see it coming. Now, we have three weeks and we have no idea what to do,” said Nadia Guardado of Irving. Guardado and her husband, David Delacruz, are one of the North Texas families with nowhere to go when their lease ends at the end of the month. The couple, who work in the music industry, saw their work dry up nearly overnight last March. Guardado said her boss received a PPP loan that kept her working for a couple of months, but she’s back on furlough. The couple said they got by on savings, unemployment benefits and credit cards un...

April 5, 2021 The legislation that the House Financial Services Committee will consider this week to meet its reconciliation instructions under the House budget resolution includes critical housing assistance for millions of people who are struggling to pay their rent and avoid eviction, as well as badly needed resources to help communities address homelessness during the pandemic. The committee should quickly approve these measures, and the full House and Senate should enact them as part of the broader COVID-19 relief package that Congress will consider in com...

In Unprecedented Times, Nothing Less Than Universal Rent Relief Will Do An intimate look at what it’s like fighting for meaningful state-level rent relief when the powers that be don’t believe everyone is worth saving. February 3, 2021, 10am PST | LM_Ortiz Share Journal entry—Dec. 9, 2020 I am yelling on a Zoom call again, this one a virtual meeting of policymakers, community leaders, and technocrats talking about Oregon state policy. As a faculty member at Portland State University, I am often invited to lend expertise to discussions about housing and urban policy, especially raci...