HUD’s NHL is a response to lessons learned from
Hurricane Katrina and related disasters. It complements HUD’s proven
housing and emergency disaster voucher programs and is designed to
be a single, Internet-based web site that will assist individuals
and families in finding rental housing in a Presidential-declared or
local disaster.
The NHL is a searchable, web-based
clearinghouse of available rental housing nation-wide. It allows HUD
and its business partners, in particular State Housing Authorities,
Public Housing Authorities, and other critical First Responders, to
deliver housing assistance by rapidly locating rental housing and
available government-owned single family homes for sale during an
emergency. The NHL uses a rental housing industry standard for
requesting data, and collects available responses to a housing
request from private and public housing locators across the country.
A selected housing query through a web site sends the requester to
the private or public housing locator providing the data. The
original data provider provides the details on the rental, points of
contact and other value added resources.
The National Housing Locator Syatem (NHLS) Application has been moved to the new
portal environment at http://portal.hud.gov/app_nhls