The NHLIC research team welcomes Betty Ramirez, who will be responsible for developing a qualitative research project to capture the experience of tenants and property managers in LIHTC properties. Betty will use interviews and data resources to help us better understand the impact of housing markets and affordable housing policies on LIHTC tenant experiences. The project will help formulate policies to preserve housing stability for low-income tenants.
Betty received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, San Diego with a focus on Latin American and U.S. ethnic minority literature in the 20th century. Her graduate studies explored Latin American and Chicana/o authors’ political commitment to literature as a vehicle for critiquing how socio-economic and political policies have impacted marginalized communities in major Latin American and U.S. southwest cities. Betty joined the NLIHC through the American Council of Learned Societies Leading Edge Fellowship. The fellowship promotes opportunities for Ph.D. graduates in the humanities to utilize the skills they acquired in doctoral programs in non-profit settings to foster social justice initiatives.