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Our Favorite Accomplishments of 2012
We emailed our supporters last week to do a little bragging about what we’ve been up to this year. This has been such a busy year for the National Low Income Housing Coalition that we couldn’t fit all our work into one email! Instead, we thought we’d share some of our staff’s other favorite 2012 Continue reading
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News Round-Up: Support for Solutions
Often, housing news seems bleak. Low income tenants are subjected to deplorable living conditions, victims of domestic violence often find themselves choosing between staying in a violent home or becoming homeless, and renters whose landlords are in foreclosure don’t realize their right to stay in their homes. But a recent poll shows the American people Continue reading
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News Round-Up: Foreclosed
Both the Charlotte Post and Affordable Housing Finance wrote about our recent report on the impact of the foreclosure crisis on renters. As AHF notes, we argue that “nationwide data must be made available to better assess the impact of foreclosures on renters and urges that 2009’s Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act, which is set to expire at Continue reading
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Protecting Renters from Foreclosure- Permanently.
The housing market is sending decidedly mixed signals to Americans: On the one hand, increases in new home construction are suggesting to analysts that the housing slump might finally be over, which could mean positive economic impacts outside of the housing construction sector. On the other hand, banks are sending increasing numbers of homes into Continue reading
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Blameless
The foreclosure crisis has been devastating to homeowners and to communities. With the first waves of foreclosure, we saw families with subprime mortgages losing their homes. More and more, it’s long-term unemployment that is forcing homeowners into foreclosure. Less publicized in all of this has been the affect of foreclosure on renters. Landlords are defaulting Continue reading
On the Home Front 