Tenant Talk Live— NLIHC’s bimonthly call/webinar with resident leaders from across the country—provides opportunities for residents to connect with NLIHC and one another; to share best practices; and to learn how to be more involved in influencing federal housing policies and to lead in their communities. The next Tenant Talk Live session will take place on Thursday, February 27, at 6:00 p.m. ET and will feature Angie Whitehurst, writer for Street Sense Media, one of D.C.’s leading publications focusing on homelessness. Register here.
Ms. Whitehurst will discuss how she has been able to network with local elected officials and other decision makers to produce actionable affordable housing and homelessness solutions. Staff from NLIHC will also provide key policy, regulatory, and program updates—from the administration’s attacks on federal funding for housing programs and on the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule to NLIHC’s Our Homes, Our Voices National Housing Week of Action (May 2-12).
Past guest speakers on Tenant Talk Live have included Willie “J.R.” Fleming, executive director of the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign, who shared insights into how residents can use Section 3 to provide construction jobs and job training opportunities to residents in their communities; Ed Gramlich, NLIHC senior advisor, who provided updates on a proposed rule related to implementation of the Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act (HOTMA); and Nashid Shakir, project manager, Jurisdiction-Wide Resident Advisory Board (J-RAB), who provided an overview of Title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) from a resident’s perspective.
NLIHC is committed to connecting and engaging with resident leaders in new, more robust ways. If you are a low-income resident and have a topic you would like to propose for peer-sharing or if you want to be a speaker on an upcoming call/webinar, please email us at: [email protected]
To be notified about future calls/webinars, sign-up at: https://bit.ly/2HHAKuK
To join the February 27 call/webinar, register at: https://bit.ly/39RNU4o