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September 30, 2019

Where to Find Us - September 30

Memo to Members

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,…

September 23, 2019

Fact of the Week: Calls to 911 about People Experiencing Homelessness Grew Dramatically in San Francisco Despite Negligible Growth in Homelessness

Memo to Members

April 18, 2016

Point of View by Diane Yentel

Memo to Members, Point of View

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…

April 25, 2016

Point of View by Diane Yentel

Memo to Members, Point of View

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.…

May 2, 2016

Point of View by Sheila Crowley

Memo to Members, Point of View

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…

June 6, 2016

Point of View: by Diane Yentel, President and CEO

Memo to Members, Point of View

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…

June 27, 2016

Point of View—Second Chances Depend on Affordable Homes: By Diane Yentel, President and CEO

Memo to Members, Point of View

(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…

July 25, 2016

Point of View: Elevating the Affordable Housing Crisis in the Elections

Memo to Members, Point of View

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…

November 14, 2016

Point of View: The Post-Election Road Ahead for Affordable Housing

Memo to Members, Point of View

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…

October 2, 2017

Point of View: Time to Act for Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Texas and Florida

Memo to Members, Point of View

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…

September 16, 2019

HUD Ignores Deadline for the Release of Disaster Funds; FEMA Officials and Contractor Indicted for Fraud

Memo to Members

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…

July 15, 2019

Point of View: Keep Families Together - by Diane Yentel, NLIHC President and CEO

Memo to Members, Point of View

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”…

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