NHLP is excited to share the launch of The BLOCK Project, an initiative from ChangeLab Solutions. Over the last year, NHLP has partnered with The BLOCK Project team to explore the relationship between health and housing. This week, ChangeLab Solutions introduced on Medium the Porch Light Debates, a series of provocative conversations illuminating tensions at the intersection of health and housing practices and highlighting the opportunities and challenges hospitals, public health departments, and housing authorities have to improve health equity. NHLP contributed a piece on access to justice as a public health strategy to reduce displacement and other negative effects of gentrification.

NHLP's Supervising Attorney Karlo Ng is in Portland, Oregon for the annual meeting of the National Alliance for Safe Housing (NASH). NASH helps to inform and support the work of the Domestic Violence and Housing Technical Assistance Consortium, which consists of federal partners: the Department of Justice (OVW and Office for Victims of Crime), the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Health and Human Services (Family Violence Prevention and Services), as well as four technical assistance providers: District Alliance for Safe Housing, the National Network to End Domestic Violence, the National Resource Center for Domestic Violence, and Collaborative Solutions, Inc.