By Kayla Springer, NLIHC Policy Intern
NLIHC is excited to welcome Kayla Springer as a summer 2025 policy intern. Kayla is a rising senior at Harvard University studying Social Studies with a focus on housing and urbanization. From a suburb of Boston, her interest in housing policy was sparked while working for her town’s Department of Planning and Development, where she supported community engagement efforts around a transformative zoning redesign aiming to combat the local housing crisis. Since then, Kayla has worked with several housing and land use organizations, including Community Solutions and the Massachusetts Zoning Atlas, seeking to imagine a reparative and affordable future for housing and land use in the United States.
On campus, Kayla collaborates with community partners to advocate for Harvard to engage in more equitable land and development practices from Boston to Brazil. She is excited to join NLIHC and contribute to policies that center the needs of low-income households. This summer, Kayla hopes to deepen her understanding of how federal legislative structures shape the housing policy landscape across national, state, and local scales and how communities and organizations are fighting to ensure affordable, accessible, and safe housing for all.