homelessness
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News Round-Up: Changing Priorities
You’ve read it here before: in New Jersey, as in other parts of the country, “The housing bust has not only hurt homeowners — who have lost equity and, in too many cases, their homes — it has made it more difficult for those who choose not to buy a home to find affordable rental Continue reading
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Meet Our Interns: Michael Sarna
The National Low Income Housing Coalition is fortunate to have great interns every semester and summer. Over the next several weeks, each of our summer interns will share their experiences at the Coalition with you. Think interning with the Coalition might be for you? Learn more here! Coming off of a semester I was less Continue reading
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Taking Steps to End Veteran Homelessness
For many Americans, military service is a means of gaining skills and improving future job prospects while serving and protecting our nation. But for about 67,500 U.S. military veterans who are homeless, that better future has yet to materialize. Those veterans who are homeless are more likely to have mental health issues, traumatic brain injury Continue reading
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Independence Day
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That Continue reading
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News Round-Up: A Housing Problem and an Income Problem
In her testimony at a hearing of the housing subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee, Coalition President Sheila Crowley noted that “Observers often ask if the shortage of rental housing for the low and extremely low income population is a housing problem or an income problem. The answer is that it is both.” Two Continue reading
On the Home Front 