Point of View articles are by current NLIHC President & CEO Diane Yentel. Below is a listing of articles by date.
Point of View Resources
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 more attention among the media and local communities, many of us would like to see the issue elevated…
(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,…