Today, we’re revisiting a post from earlier this year that tells you what the National Housing Trust Fund can do, and shows you how we’ve worked to defend that vital program. Tomorrow, NLIHC President & CEO Sheila Crowley will testify on the National Housing Trust Fund before the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored… Continue reading

Sheila Crowley, NLIHC’s President and CEO, writes on Huffington Post today about what she hopes to hear from President Obama during his speech on jobs tomorrow. As a nation, we find ourselves at a difficult place economically, but also face a different kind of pain. Foreclosure, unemployment, and a slow-as-molasses recovery have made uncertainty the… Continue reading

It’s been an interesting 24 hours, hasn’t it? Yesterday, we were one of possibly millions of Twitter users to tweet that President Obama would be giving his jobs speech on September 7 at a joint session of Congress. We’ve been keeping a close watch on the development of the President’s jobs proposal, as we know… Continue reading

Certainly, it could have been worse. But Hurricane Irene was plenty bad for millions of Americans up and down the East Coast. For those who were spared the worst of the storm, Irene provided a drill of sorts, prompting people to stock up on supplies and assess their preparedness for natural disaster. For others, it… Continue reading

When you  look at the National Housing Trust Fund website, you see that the slogan for the NHTF campaign is “A Home is the Foundation.” We say this because while home is so much more than a roof overhead, very often those of us with stable housing take for granted how essential home is to… Continue reading