national housing trust fund
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Reflections from the Road, by Sheila Crowley
The first road trip of the United for Homes campaign took place last week in the state of Michigan. Joseph Lindstrom and I visited eight communities in three days meeting with advocates and providers of low income housing, services to people who are homeless, and services for people with disabilities. We visited a CDC in Continue reading
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On the Road & Busting Myths
The United for Homes campaign is pretty straightforward: We want to reform the mortgage interest deduction, which would create almost $200 billion in revenue over ten years. And then, we want to use this new revenue to finally fund the National Housing Trust Fund! What may seem more complicated is the actual proposal to reform Continue reading
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Did someone say road trip?
We have been on a bit of a hiatus, but we are back with lots of exciting news to share! The United for Homes campaign is going strong! 1,235 organizations have endorsed the campaign to fund the National Housing Trust Fund through modifications to the mortgage interest deduction… and if you aren’t one of them, Continue reading
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The Housing We Need
President Barack Obama released his FY14 budget request to Congress yesterday, which includes $1 billion for the National Housing Trust Fund on the mandatory side of the budget and the partial restoration of funding for some HUD programs. As housing advocates know, the shortage of rental housing affordable to the lowest income Americans is a Continue reading
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Is homelessness something we can accept?
You’d have to have a pretty cold heart not to be moved by this story: an empathetic doctor and a homeless inventor partner together to launch the homeless man’s invention, changing both their lives in the process. The story of Mike Williams, who became homeless after a series of financial setbacks, reminds us that as Continue reading
On the Home Front 