Point of View: Elevating the Affordable Housing Crisis in the Elections
By Diane Yentel, NLIHC President and CEO Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) During such a pivotal election year, and at a time when the pervasive lack of affordable housing is gaining…
Point of View—Second Chances Depend on Affordable Homes: By Diane Yentel, President and CEO
(this POV is adapted from an op-ed published in Housing Wire on June 24) Each year, more than 600,000 people are released from federal and state prisons, while roughly 11 million more cycle through…
Point of View: by Diane Yentel, President and CEO
Our country faces an alarming gap between the housing needs of our nation’s poorest households and what is available and affordable to them. The result is rising family homelessness in cities across…
Point of View by Sheila Crowley
When you read this, I will have spent my last day as a staff member of the National Low Income Housing Coalition. After 17-plus years here and 40 some years at this work, I have retired, at least for…
Point of View by Diane Yentel
Many of you may remember Sheila Crowley's weekly “Point of View” column in Memo to Members. For those of us working on housing policy in the late 1990's and early 2000's, it was essential reading.…
Point of View by Diane Yentel
It’s been three weeks since I returned to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, this time as its President and CEO – what an exhilarating and inspiring time. I began just before NLIHC’s annual…