foreclosure
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Project Spotlight: Protecting Tenants At Foreclosure
NLIHC is one of the leading organizations advocating for the rights of renters at foreclosure. Making permanent the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act (PTFA) is a top policy priority for NLIHC. WHY THIS IS IMPORTANTForeclosures devastate families and neighborhoods and hamper economic recovery. As landlords have defaulted on their mortgages, renters in good standing have… Continue reading
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News Round-Up: Funding Housing, Ending Homelessness
Sunday morning, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry hosted a wide-ranging discussion on the aspects of America’s housing crisis that don’t get the attention they deserve: namely, housing discrimination, the impact of foreclosure on renters and the shortage of housing affordable to the lowest income Americans. In the discussion’s first segment, panelists James Perry, former NLIHC board member and… Continue reading
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Our Favorite Accomplishments of 2012
We emailed our supporters last week to do a little bragging about what we’ve been up to this year. This has been such a busy year for the National Low Income Housing Coalition that we couldn’t fit all our work into one email! Instead, we thought we’d share some of our staff’s other favorite 2012… Continue reading
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News Round-Up: Support for Solutions
Often, housing news seems bleak. Low income tenants are subjected to deplorable living conditions, victims of domestic violence often find themselves choosing between staying in a violent home or becoming homeless, and renters whose landlords are in foreclosure don’t realize their right to stay in their homes. But a recent poll shows the American people… Continue reading
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News Round-Up: Foreclosed
Both the Charlotte Post and Affordable Housing Finance wrote about our recent report on the impact of the foreclosure crisis on renters. As AHF notes, we argue that “nationwide data must be made available to better assess the impact of foreclosures on renters and urges that 2009’s Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act, which is set to expire at… Continue reading