national housing trust fund
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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: Making Housing a Priority
Our first news round-up of 2013 brings you stories of a big push to provide greater funding for affordable housing, and some very real reasons why that housing is so important. First, to reasons: In The Nation we read about the connection between safe, decent housing and educational success. According to the post, “Children who lack Continue reading
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It’s time to unite!
The start of a new Congress. The beginning of the President’s second term. A nationwide effort to secure a new funding source for the National Housing Trust Fund. What do these three things have in common? They’re the top reasons housing advocates from around the country need to be in Washington, D.C. March 17-20 for 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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Ending the Shortage of Affordable Housing with Housing Tax Reform
We’ve written often about the shortage of rental housing affordable and available to the lowest income Americans. This shortage complicates our national efforts to end homelessness, and makes it harder for the growing population of chronically underemployed workers to find decent housing they can afford. A significant part of this real and serious problem is Continue reading
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