Please read this Action Alert from our partner, the Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center, and then call or email your Congressperson. Congress is deciding right now whether low-income families will continue to having housing at this time when you can't shelter at home if you don't have a home. We need additional rental assistance for families who have lost their jobs, more shelter beds for the homeless, and mortgage forbearance for low-income homeowners so they don't become h

We hope the whole extended L9WHA family is healthy and taking care of themselves and their community, whether that's by continuing to work or staying home as much as possible (or both!). In the Lower 9th Ward, we are working with other community leaders to ensure that no one is evicted during this time and to arrange for food deliveries in the neighborhood. Our staff is working from home, picking up phone messages remotely so we can continue to provide services. I wanted to s