income housing and the coronavirus outbreak. can you estimate how many economically distressed, low income homeowners and renters there are in america? guest: sure. at the national income housing coalition, we look at extremely low income renters and housing needs. we know that nationally we have a shortage of seven million homes, affordable and available to the lowest income people. another way of saying that number is for every 100 of the lowest income renters, it is seniors, people disabilities, and others. out of 100 of them, there are 36 homes affordable and available to them. ofause of this shortage homes for the lowest income millionthere are over 8 extremely low income households who are paying more than half of their income toward rent. 60, of them are paying 50, 70% of their income every month just to keep a roof over their heads. when you have such limited income to begin with, you are one financial emergency away from not being able to pay the rent and facing potentially eviction or homelessness. for many of these families, coronavirus will be that financial emergency. they are losing hours at work. they are losing their jobs. they are getting sick and they cannot show up to

. >> diane yentel is ceo of the national low income housing coalition you to talk about low income housing. canea you estimate if you can tl how many economic distressed low income homeowners and renters there are in america? >> guest: sure. at the national low income housing coalition will look at extremely low income renters and their housing needs, and we know that nationally we have shortage of 7 million homes, affordable and available to the lowest income people. another way of saying that same number is for every 100 of the lowest income renters, seniors, people with disabilities, others, 3100, there are 36 homes affordable and available to them. so because of this shortage of homes for the lowest income people, there are over 8 million extremely low income households who are paying more than half of the income towards rent. many of them are pink 50, 60, 70% of income every month just to keep a a roof over their he. when you're such limited income to begin with, it is more a financial emergency away from not being able to pay the rent than facing potential eviction or homelessness. f

coming up wednesday morning, national low income housing coalition president and c.e.o. discusses how the coronavirus pandemic is impacting the housing needs of the nation's poor and homeless. then, the national federation of independent business talks about the impact of coronavirus on small businesses. and u.s. naval institute news on the role of the u.s. navy's hospital ships in the coronavirus response. watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern wednesday morning. join the discussion. " continues. host: stephen sneed is with us and we are talking about the impact of the coronavirus impact on the election season. first on the project and how are you funded? we are a nonprofit and we are a watchdog. we were not expecting to be in a pandemic such as this. our primary mission is to ensure the integrity and security of the electoral system and to defend the rights of voters to participate in a system which is free, fair, and honest. there will always be challenges so our democracy, pandemic being the latest and we need to respond to those with elections that

. >> diane yentel is ceo of the national low income housing coalition you to talk about low income housing. canea you estimate if you can tl

income housing. yentel talk with diane of the national low income housing coalition. later, we will talk about small businesses and learn how they are doing from kevin kuhlman of the national federation of independent businesses. first, yesterday during a press conference with the governor of new jersey, health minister gave an update on coronavirus cases in that state. -- the health commissioner gave an update on coronavirus cases in that state. [video clip] >> the number of cases in our state continues to rise quickly. a.m., new jersey now has the second-highest number of cases in the nation. with the ongoing spread of covid-19, i am once again emphasizing that social distancing is vital to slow this process. countriesen in other that taking aggressive action can flatten the curve and decrease the number of new cases. strict enforcement of these initiatives has led to dramatic decreases in these countries. in south korea, they have used social distancing as the main effort of mass reduction. becauses stayed home they recognized it was the right thing to do to protect

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coming up wednesday morning, national low income housing coalition president and ceo discusses how the coronavirus pandemic is impacting the housing needs of the nation's poor and homeless. the national federation of independent business talks about the impact of coronavirus on small businesses, and sam lagrone with u.s. naval institute news on the role of the u.s. navy hospital ships in the coronavirus response. watch c-span's washington journal, live at 7:00 eastern wednesday morning. join the discussion. at a news conference in baton rouge, louisiana governor john bel edwards urged state residents to comply with his newly issued stay-at-home order in response to the coronavirus outbreak. he also called for additional resources from the federal government as the number of cases in the state surpassed 1300. >>

coming up wednesday morning, national low income housing coalition president and c.e.o. discusses how the coronavirus pandemic is impacting the housing needs of the nation's poor and homeless. then, the national federation of independent business talks about the impact of coronavirus on small businesses. and u.s. naval institute news on the role of the u.s. navy's hospital ships in the coronavirus response. watch

morning, we this will look at how the coronavirus is affecting housing and fromessness diane yentel the national low income housing coalition. also kevin kuhlman with the national federation of independent business joins us to discuss the impact covid-19 is having on small businesses.

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housing crisis. according to the national low-income housing coalition, a shortage of seven million rental homes affordable to extremely low-income renters. up forearch organization growth estimates that from 2000 o 2015, the country underproduced housing by 7.3 million units. is in many oduction ways driven by land use policies barriers e artificial to much-needed housing. this bill will also help shine a potentially discriminatory land use policies that unnecessarily prevent housing developments in certain neighborhoods. the broad based on base of industry and advocate support for this bill as well as support that there is substantial agreement n the need to facilitate more affordable housing production across the country as well as he need to responsibly reduce barriers to affordable housing production. .r. 4351, the yes in my backyard act, represents a step in the right direction as we the affordable housing challenges that our country faces. i thank representative heck for timely ing this legislation. thank you, mr. speaker. and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the reserves.f

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wednesday morning, national low income housing coalition howident and ceo discusses the coronavirus pandemicimpacting the housing needs of the nation's poor and homeless. then, kevin goldman with the national foundation of independent business talks about the impact of coronavirus on small business. and the role of the u.s. navy hospital ships in the coronavirus response. wash -- watch live at seven got eastern wednesday morning. join the discussion. coming up next on c-span, president trump gives an update on the coronavirus outbreak with members of the white house task force, as the number of confirmed cases in the u.s. surpasses 50,000. after that, we will hear have governors across the country are responding to the pandemic, starting with andrew cuomo of new york. president trump: thank you very much. been a very busy day. i want to thank the american people for the incredible sacrifices that they are making on behalf of our nation d

coming up wednesday morning, national low income housing coalition president and c.e.o. diane yantell discusses how the kevin: pandemic is -- coronavirus pandemic is affecting people. and then we talk about the impact on coronavirus on small businesses. nd sam legrone with u.s. naval institute news on the hospital ships and the coronavirus response. watch c-span's "washington journal" live wednesday morning. join the discussion. announcer: next, governor phil murphy gives an update on the coronavirus update with state health officials. speaking from new wark, this is n hour and a half. governor murphy: thank you. sorry for being a few minutes late. i want to say good afternoon to everybody. our thanks to rutgers newark for allowing us to use their space for today's briefings. so to nancy cantor and her whole team a big shoutout and a big thanks. tomorrow, we will be in trenton at 2:00 p.m. at the war memorial. and so we'll be trying to give you at least one day's advanced notice as to where you will find us. as this now routine, i am joined by the woman who needs no intr

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