Now Available: Advocates' Guide 2024!
Every year, the National Low Income Housing Coalition publishes the Advocates’ Guide to educate advocates of all kinds about the programs and policies that make housing affordable to low-income people across America.
All of us can effectively advocate for housing programs with our members of Congress and other policy makers.
Whether you are a student in an urban planning program, a new employee at a housing agency or community development corporation, or a seasoned affordable housing advocate looking for a refresher on key programs, this resource will give you the overview of housing programs and advocacy tools you need to be a leader in the affordable housing movement and to advocate effectively for socially just housing policy for low-income Americans.
Chapter 2: Advocacy Resources
- How Laws Are Made
- The Federal Budget and Appropriations Process
- FY24 Budget Chart
- Congressional Advocacy and Key Housing Committees
- Federal Administration Advocacy
- Using Federal Data Sources for Housing Advocacy
- Introduction to the Federal Regulatory Process
- Using the “Freedom of Information Act” for Housing Advocacy
- Overcoming NIMBY Opposition to Affordable Housing..
- Lofty Rhetoric, Prejudiced Policy: The Story of How the Federal Government Promised—and Undermined—Fair Housing
- Resident and Tenant Organizing
- Creating and Participating in a Tenant Group
- Our Homes, Our Votes: A Guide to Nonpartisan Voter and Candidate Engagement for the Housing and Homelessness Field
- Best Practices and Lessons Learned: Building Multi-Sector Coalitions
- Advocacy and Lobbying Tips for Communities and Beyond
- Lobbying: Important Legal Considerations for Individuals and 501(c)(3) Organizations
- Working with the Media
- Housing Providers and Nonpartisan Voter Engagement.
- The HoUSed Campaign
Chapter 4: Rental Housing Programs for the Lowest-Income Households
- Housing Choice Vouchers
- Project-Based Vouchers
- Tenant Protection Vouchers
- Vouchers: Family Unification Program
- Vouchers: Foster Youth to Independence Initiative
- Mainstream and Non-Elderly Disabled (NED) Vouchers
- Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing Vouchers
- Public Housing
- Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD)
- Repositioning of Public Housing: Demolition/Disposition, Voluntary Conversion to Vouchers, and RAD
- Moving to Work (MTW) Demonstration and Expansion
- Project-Based Rental Assistance
- Section 202: Housing for the Elderly
- Section 811: Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities Program
- National Standards for Physical Inspection of Real Estate (NSPIRE)
- USDA Rural Rental Housing Programs
- Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA)
- McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Programs
- Homeless Assistance: Advocating to Use Federal Surplus Property to Create More Affordable Housing
- Renter Tax Credit
Chapter 5: Additional Housing Programs
- HOME Investment Partnerships Program
- Low-Income Housing Tax Credits
- Housing Bonds
- The Affordable Housing Program and Community Investment Program of the Federal Home Loan Banks
- Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Housing Programs
- Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program
- The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
- Federal Housing Administration
- State and Local Housing Trust Funds
- Treasury Emergency Rental Assistance Program
- Emergency Housing Voucher Program
- COVID-19 Relief Legislation and the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) Program
Chapter 6: Special Housing Issues
- Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes
- Housing Needs of Survivors of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking
- Housing Needs of Survivors of Sexual Assault
- Inclusionary Housing Policies
- Manufactured Housing
- Olmstead Implementation
- Housing Access for People Impacted by the Criminal-Legal System
- Criminalization of Homelessness
- The Mortgage Interest Deduction
- Advocating for Housing-Related Services (HRS) in Your State’s Medicaid Plans
- Disaster Housing Programs
- Housing Access for Immigrant Households
- Land Use Restrictions and Affordable Housing
- Shelter Access for Transgender People Experiencing Homelessness
- The Preservation of Affordable Housing
- End Rental Arrears to Stop Evictions (ERASE)
Chapter 7: Tenant Protections and Eviction Prevention
- State and Local Tenant Protections during and beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Eviction Record Sealing and Expungement
- Rent Regulation
- Promoting Housing Stability through Just Cause Legislation
- Right to Counsel for Tenants Facing Eviction
- Court-Based Eviction Diversion Programs
- Federal Eviction Protections during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Chapter 8: Housing Tools
- Housing Counseling Assistance
- Fair Housing Programs
- Disparate Impact
- Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH)
- Consolidated Planning Process
- Public Housing Agency Plan
- The “Community Reinvestment Act”
- Section 3: Job Training, Employment, and Business Opportunities Related to HUD
- Continuum of Care Planning
- Housing First
- HUD-Funded Service Coordination Programs: ROSS, Family Self-Sufficiency, and Service Coordinators in Multifamily Housing for Elderly and Disabled