Organizing awards
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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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NLIHC Recognizes Maui Housing Hui as an Organizing Awards Nominee!
Maui Housing Hui, a nominee for the 2025 Organizing Awards and an NLIHC member, is recognized for leading advocacy efforts that prevented further displacement and instability for tenants following the devastating August 2023 wildfires in Maui. Their campaigns successfully modified the implementation of an Emergency Proclamation by the Governor to ensure greater housing stability for Continue reading
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