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”…
Diane Yentel,
NLIHC President & CEO
Last week, I read an internal HUD draft bill that confirmed what many of us suspected: Secretary Carson is planning, through his FY19 budget request and…
Diane Yentel,
NLIHC President & CEO
After the tax bill passed, we said (along with many others) that the law will exacerbate our country’s yawning income inequality and harm efforts to end…
From May 1 through May 8, thousands of advocates in dozens of cities and towns across the country raised their voices in support of increased investments in affordable homes for those with the…
Diane Yentel,
NLIHC President & CEO
The following is adapted from an op-ed published in the Orlando Sentinel on June 29 at: https://bit.ly/2IEffc7
(Since publishing this op-ed, NLIHC’s…
Diane Yentel,
NLIHC President & CEO
Last week, a report from the White House Council of Economic Advisors absurdly stated that the country’s war on poverty is “largely over and a success.”…
