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NLIHC’s Tenant Leader Cohort Visits the White House
By David Foster, NLIHC, based on interviews with tenants and tenant leaders Members of NLIHC’s Tenant Leader Cohort – alongside other people with lived expertise, legal aid providers, advocates, and researchers – attended a meeting focused on tenant protections at the White House on November 14, 2022. The Cohort and NLIHC President and CEO Diane Continue reading
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Talk of the Town: Sequestration and Housing
Sequestration is the talk of the town this week in Washington, D.C. and much of the rest of the country as we close in on the end of the first week in this new federal budget environment. The New York Times predicted early this week that people living in poverty would be hit hardest by sequestration, Continue reading
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The Other Section 8
Last week, we discussed efforts to reform the Section 8 voucher program, also known as Housing Choice Vouchers. Section 8 vouchers make it possible for households with extremely low incomes to live in private market rental homes while paying rents they can afford. But vouchers aren’t the only kind of Section 8. Project-based Section 8 Continue reading
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Sign On for Reform
With all the talk of election year politics and the difficulty of finding compromise in such a polarized political climate, it is a welcome change when a good piece of legislation has the opportunity to finally become law. This is the case for Section 8 voucher reform legislation, known in the past as the Section Continue reading
On the Home Front 