On the Home Front

This evening, the National Low Income Housing Coalition is presenting Nan Roman, Executive Director of the National Alliance to End Homelessness, with the Edward W. Brooke, III Housing Leadership Award. Below, Nan shares with us what her work- and this award- means to her. Read more from the NAEH on their blog. “While ending homelessness… Continue reading

If you’re a member of the National Low Income Housing Coalition you receive our newsletter, Memo to Members, in your inbox or mailbox every week. Here’s a preview of this week’s Memo: 2011 NLIHC Annual Housing Policy Conference is on! Advance registration is closed, but you can still register at the door. Follow the conference… Continue reading

This post comes from NLIHC’s Research Team. Planning to let your Member of Congress know how important federal low income housing programs are to your community?  NLIHC has just updated its Congressional District Profiles to support your case. Whether you are giving them a call, dropping them a line, texting them, or visiting them the… Continue reading

This post is from Danilo Pelletiere, Research Director and Chief Economist, NLIHC. This week, Financial Times reviews a book on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the housing government sponsored entities, titled Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance. According to the review, the book makes the case that “sentimentality… Continue reading

This week on The Nation‘s Editor’s Cut blog, Katrina vanden Heuvel shares the story of one woman whose life changed for the better because of a federal anti-poverty initiative, the Workforce Development Program. This story and many others are shared thanks to Half in Ten, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund,… Continue reading