The third issue of Tenant Talk was released last week online and in print. Have you read your copy yet? This issue, we’re focusing on ways residents, tenants and their allies can take action. Whether it’s to support the National Housing Trust Fund, ensure housing needs are met after a disaster, or ensure housing programs… Continue reading

Everyone’s career has to start somewhere and for many, it all began in a cubicle as an intern. For me, that internship was at NLIHC. Most interns are in pursuit of a few things: “Strengthen my resume…. Secure a good reference…. Maybe even make a few bucks.” A good internship might provide all of these… Continue reading

Washington, D.C. is full of membership organizations, associations and the like. Type “national association Washington, DC” into Google and you’ll find 54.7 million results. Governors, social workers, restaurants, manufacturers, Realtors… the list goes on. Membership means power for groups in the nation’s capitol. But does it mean power for members? At the National Low Income… Continue reading

As our mission statement makes clear, the National Low Income Housing Coalition is an organization that advocates for public policy change. So while we work to convince lawmakers and the public that affordable housing must be built and preserved, we do not provide housing ourselves. Even so, like many other housing advocacy organizations every day… Continue reading