Point of View articles are by current NLIHC President & CEO Diane Yentel. Below is a listing of articles by date.
Point of View Resources
(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 local jails. But despite serving their time, many of these formerly incarcerated…
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 the country, and more and more families paying at least half of their income towards their rent each…
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. Each week, Sheila contextualized and made relevant the many housing policy happenings in Washington,…
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 housing forum and had the chance to reconnect with many old friends and colleagues, partners with…