This year marks the 30th anniversary of NLIHC’s Out of Reach. To commemorate the milestone, NLIHC invited New York Times reporter Emily Badger to interview a panel of experts: Peggy Bailey, vice president for housing policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; Shelia Crowley, former president and CEO of NLIHC; Erhard Mahnke, coordinator of the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition and NLIHC board member; and Andrew Aurand, vice president for research at NLIHC. The interview was recorded for a podcast on the history of Out of Reach and solutions to the affordable housing crisis. Diane Yentel, NLIHC president and CEO, introduces the podcast.
Emily posed questions to panelists covering a variety of housing affordability issues. How did we get to this crisis? How have policy changes impacted access to affordable housing? What are some solutions and resources that we already have in place but that are underutilized and threatened? What should the next president do in their first 100 days in office to significantly increase affordable housing for the lowest-income people?
Listen to the 30thAnniversary of Out of Reach podcast at: https://bit.ly/2OZGYfU
The 2019 Out of Reach report is at: https://reports.nlihc.org/oor/