National Low Income Housing Coalition
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Housing and the Election Webinar: 5 Ways You Can Take Action
By Sarah Mickelson, NLIHC Director of Public Policy Over the next few months, affordable housing and community development organizations have an opportunity to influence a number of critical issues before Congress and to help break through the noise of the presidential campaigns to make affordable housing an election issue. Join us for a discussion with… Continue reading
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Broad Coalition tells Congress to Give People with Criminal Records a Fair Chance at Housing
By Christina Libre, NLIHC Policy Intern NLIHC sent a letter this week to Congress to support Representative Maxine Waters’ (D-CA) bold leadership in introducing the Fair Chance at Housing Act of 2016 (H.R. 5085), landmark legislation that will go a long way to ensuring people with criminal records have access to affordable housing. The letter… Continue reading
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The Upshot of Focusing on Extremely Low Income Renters: Expanded Housing Availability for All Renters
By Dan Emmanuel, Research Analyst at NLIHC Our recent report, The Gap 2016, revealed a shortage of more than seven million rental units affordable and available to extremely low income (ELI) renter households, those earning less than 30% of the area median income (AMI). Seventy-five percent of ELI renter households were severely cost-burdened, paying more… Continue reading
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MacArthur Genius Dr. Matthew Desmond Discusses Poverty and Evictions at NLIHC Event
By Sarah Jemison, Housing Advocacy Organizer, NLIHC Harvard sociologist and MacArthur Genius Dr. Matthew Desmond discussed his critically acclaimed book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, to an audience of housing advocates and others committed to ending housing poverty at an event sponsored by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, the Coalition on Human… Continue reading