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News Round-Up: The Affordable Housing Shortage, Explained
Sequestration is already having a clear impact on low income renters across the U.S. As Fox 5 DC reported, the DC Housing Authority is already making tough choices to balance the cuts required by sequestration with the agency’s mission to house the lowest income residents of DC. According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the housing agency in Continue reading
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A Better America
This post is a personal reflection from Linda Couch, NLIHC’s Senior Vice President for Public Policy. There is a special family in my life that needs a lot of things. They have certain things, for which they are extremely grateful every day: they love each other deeply, they are usually healthy, they are optimistic. But, Continue reading
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News Round-Up: Fighting Words
It’s time to fight for the National Housing Trust Fund. So says the New York Times in an editorial this weekend citing the shortage of safe, decent housing affordable to the lowest income Americans as “one of America’s most vexing problems.” Vexing is right. As National Low Income Housing Coalition analysis shows, there are only 30 units Continue reading
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News Round-Up: States Don’t Fill the Gap
In 2008, the National Low Income Housing Coalition released a report detailing how, despite their tremendous efforts to do so, states were unable to make up for the shrinking availability of federal dollars for affordable housing development with their own housing funds. In the Sacramento News & Review, we read a story that brings this report Continue reading
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News Round-Up: Housing Disasters, Natural and Man-Made
In this week’s News Round-Up, we find news stories showing that both natural disasters, and the disastrous economy, have combined with the nationwide shortage of rental housing affordable to low income people to create a crisis for many American families. In Vermont, manufactured home park residents whose homes were flooded during Hurricane Irene had no Continue reading
On the Home Front 