affordable housing
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Meet Our Interns: Christina Payamps-Smith
The National Low Income Housing Coalition is fortunate to have great interns every semester and summer. Spring intern Christina Payamps-Smith, a master’s degree student at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, shares her experiences as an intern with us today. For as long as I can remember I have had an interest in social justice issues. Continue reading
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How Fannie and Freddie Can Make Us Whole
Housing is a part of our lives that is at once so important, and yet so taken for granted that its impact on us is nearly invisible. Invisible, that is, until a health emergency, job loss or other major life tragedy results in its loss. Home is the foundation of the lives we live and Continue reading
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Home for the Holidays
If you could ask for any gift this holiday season, what would it be? Would you want to take a trip around the world? To have that car you’ve been dreaming about since you were a kid? Or would you prefer something less tangible, like more time with the people you love? If we could Continue reading
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What will you give on Giving Tuesday?
Over $11.2 billion spent. Participation up 26% over one year ago. These, of course, are figures from Black Friday, America’s post-Thanksgiving holiday shopping tradition/abomination (depending on your point of view). Our nation’s retailers make one fifth or more of their sales in the last two months of the year, and our sluggish if improving economy Continue reading
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News Round-Up: Closed
Waiting lists for housing assistance and restrictions against occupancy by those with bad rental records or criminal backgrounds make roadside motels one of the few housing options accessible to some extremely low income people. The closure of one such motel in Spokane, Wash. means about 50 such residents will be displaced. It’s not just these Continue reading
On the Home Front 