Intern Spotlight
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How Metro Raised $652.8 Million in a 2018 Affordable Housing Bond Measure
NLIHC received over 16 nominations for the 2019 Organizing Awards. We are highlighting one nominee–Metro (greater Portland’s regional government)–for successfully placing an affordable housing bond measure on the 2018 ballot. Continue reading
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Blazing a new trail for housing justice: A Q&A with New York City’s Right to Counsel Coalition
By Isaiah Milbauer, NLIHC Field Intern New York City eviction proceedings have long been a tale of the powerful versus the powerless. Historically, renters hardly ever receive legal representation in eviction court proceedings, but landlords almost always do. (And this is true in housing courts everywhere across the country!) As a direct result of tenants Continue reading
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A Student Message on United for Homes
By Isaiah Fleming-Klink, NLIHC Field Intern Since 2011 the United for Homes (UFH) campaign has been building support for a policy solution that addresses the housing and homelessness crises in America through mortgage interest deduction (MID) reform. Thus far, we have the support of over 2,300 national, state, and local organizations as well as government officials. Continue reading
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When Academics Meets Real-Life
By Lindsey Otto, Communications & Graphic Design Intern When I started as the Communications/Graphic Design intern at NLIHC, I had no idea what to expect. Finishing my first year at the University of Arizona, I decided to jump right in and spend my summer getting some real world experience in my field of study. I am Continue reading
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My Rewards as an NLIHC Summer Intern
By Bianca Guerrero, NLIHC Field and Communications Intern My goal this summer was to learn what the affordable housing crisis looks like across the United States and to see what communities and organizations are doing to address it. After three months interning with the Tenant Protection Unit, a New York State agency that protects rent-regulated residents, Continue reading
On the Home Front 