New Op-Ed: “Trump’s Katrina”? For Housing, it’s Worse
New Op-Ed: “Trump’s Katrina”? When it Comes to the Housing Response, it’s Worse The Orlando Sentinel published yesterday an op-ed by NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel on a federal judge’s ruling…
Op-Ed: Trump administration continues to undermine Fair Housing Act
Originally published in The Hill on August 23, 2018 Fifty years after the passage of the landmark Fair Housing Act, President Trump’s administration continues to undermine the law’s goals of…
Op-Ed: FEMA's failing disaster victims who are still desperate for housing
Originally published in the Orlando Sentinel on June 29, 2018 Ater Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, tens of thousands of people were displaced from their damaged or destroyed homes. Many thousands…
Setting the Record Straight on Secretary Carson’s Proposals to Cut Housing Benefits
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel published an op-ed today that sets the record straight about HUD Secretary Ben Carson’s proposals to cut housing benefits, and his ever-changing rationale for…
Op-Ed: FEMA's ignoring a longer-term housing option for displaced families
For displaced people from the 2017 hurricanes, the storms were the first disaster; FEMA’s housing response has been the next. Thousands of low-income seniors, people with disabilities, and families…
Op-Ed: Hurricane victims are headed for homelessness
An affordable housing crisis is deepening in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Even before the storms, each community had severe shortages of affordable rental homes. Houston and…