NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel and other NLIHC staff will be speaking at the following events in the coming months:
Housing Matters Speaker Series, Fannie Mae, Georgia State University,…
It’s been three weeks since I returned to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, this time as its President and CEO – what an exhilarating and inspiring time. I began just before NLIHC’s annual…
Many of you may remember Sheila Crowley's weekly “Point of View” column in Memo to Members. For those of us working on housing policy in the late 1990's and early 2000's, it was essential reading.…
When you read this, I will have spent my last day as a staff member of the National Low Income Housing Coalition. After 17-plus years here and 40 some years at this work, I have retired, at least for…
Our country faces an alarming gap between the housing needs of our nation’s poorest households and what is available and affordable to them. The result is rising family homelessness in cities across…
(this POV is adapted from an op-ed published in Housing Wire on June 24)
Each year, more than 600,000 people are released from federal and state prisons, while roughly 11 million more…
By Diane Yentel, NLIHC President and CEO
Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT)
During such a pivotal election year, and at a time when the pervasive lack of affordable housing is gaining…
By Diane Yentel, NLIHC President and CEO
The stunning election results are still sinking in, and there remain more questions than answers to what it all means. In all the uncertainty, this much is…
Diane Yentel,
NLIHC President & CEO
This weekend, President Donald Trump tweeted from a private golf course to attack the integrity and hard work of a Latina mayor whose city is facing a…
HUD continues to delay the release of disaster mitigation funding for Puerto Rico even after the expiration of a statutory September 4 deadline set by Congress. Congress approved $16.5 billion in…
In an extraordinary and historic rebuke of HUD Secretary Ben Carson, more than 30,000 people and organizations submitted comments on HUD’s cruel, wasteful and needless “mixed-status”…
