Organizing awards
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NLIHC’s 2026 Annual Organizing Awards
By Carlton Taylor On March 12, 2026, NLIHC will honor our 2026 Organizing Awards recipients. Held on the second day of the NLIHC Housing Policy Forum 2026, NLIHC’s Organizing Awards recognize outstanding achievements in statewide, regional, citywide, neighborhood, or resident organizing that further NLIHC’s mission of ensuring that people with the lowest incomes have quality Continue reading
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NLIHC Recognizes Memphis Tenants Union as 2025 Local Organizing Award Honoree!
The Memphis Tenants Union (MTU) is honored with the 2025 NLIHC Local Organizing Award in recognition of its hard-fought, multi-year campaign that resulted in improvements in living conditions for residents of the local Memphis Towers and a new owner for the apartment complex. MTU is a multi-racial, multi-generational, working-class organization dedicated to building collective tenant Continue reading
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NLIHC Recognizes the Housing Network of Rhode Island as an Organizing Awards Nominee!
The Housing Network of Rhode Island (HNRI), a nominee for the 2025 Organizing Awards and an NLIHC state partner, is recognized for its leadership to enact a statewide housing bond in the November 2024 elections. Conversations about a housing bond began after the state allocated nearly one-third of its American Rescue Plan Act state fiscal Continue reading
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NLIHC Recognizes Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance as an Organizing Awards Nominee!
The Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance (GNOHA), a 2025 organizing awards nominee, is recognized for its work to pass a charter amendment that establishes and funds a local Housing Trust Fund. For decades, the city of New Orleans had a property tax millage to support a modest neighborhood housing improvement fund. However, the mayor’s office Continue reading
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NLIHC Recognizes Hoboken Fair Housing Association as an Organizing Awards Nominee!
The Hoboken Fair Housing Association (HFHA), a nominee for the 2025 Organizing Awards, is recognized for its work to defeat a landlord-backed referendum that would have rolled back rent control in the city. Hoboken Fair Housing Association (HFHA), a long-established tenants’ rights organization and affiliate of New Jersey Tenants Organization (NJTO), joined forces with Hoboken Continue reading
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