National Low Income Housing Coalition And Low Income Housing

Programs: Nlihc's goals are to preserve existing federally assisted homes and housing resources, expand the supply of low income housing, and establish housing stability as the primary purpose of federal low income housing policy. In 2017, nlihc:- produced and widely distributed a flagship online and print research product, out of reach, which documents the "housing wage" needed for a household to afford a modest rental apartment in every state and jurisdiction in the country - and (new this year) by zip code for metropolitan areas - and showcases the gap between prevailing rents and what renters earn and prevailing minimum wages. Out of reach attracts extensive media coverage throughout the country, including by major national outlets like the washington post, the wall street journal, npr, citylab, esquire, the huffington post, univision, fast company, vox, and others. - published and widely distributed the 2017 edition of the gap: a shortage of affordable homes report, documenting a shortage of more than 7 million affordable and available rental units for the nation's 11. 4 million extremely low income renter households and showing that over 70% of the lowest income renter households in the u. S. Are severely housing cost-burdened, spending more than half of their incomes on their housing. - hosted a national housing policy forum attended by more than 300 advocates, researchers, residents, government officials to discuss and learn about issues and solutions to homelessness and housing poverty. - participated in 286 interviews and other exchanges with print, online, television and radio media on affordable housing issues and solutions. Nationwide, more than 3,500 media stories mentioned nlihc, nlihc's research, the national housing trust fund, and other nlihc-related topics and issues. - published/sent 48 issues of memo to members and partners, nlihc's highly regarded national weekly e-newsletter on national and state affordable housing developments, legislation, regulations, and research sent weekly to more than 40,000 readers. - produced and distributed to coalition members and other partners nlihc's annual advocates guide, the most comprehensive compendium of federal affordable housing programs, laws, and issues in the nation. - regularly engaged our members in education and advocacy efforts and supported the activities of 62 state housing and homeless coalitions in 42 states and the district of columbia. - partnered with the public and affordable housing research corporation (pahrc) to update and offer the national housing preservation database, the only publicly available national inventory of assisted housing across federal subsidy programs at the property address level. - published and distributed nationally to over 2,000 recipients two editions of "tenant talk," an magazine for low income public housing residents, subsidized housing tenants, and other low income individuals. - convened and led several broad-based national policy advocacy campaigns and task forces including the campaign for housing and community development funding, the national housing trust fund (htf) policy committee, and the housing and criminal justice reform task force. - convened a disaster housing recovery coalition of more than 700 organizations working jointly to ensure a fair, robust housing recovery, particularly for those with the lowest incomes, following the hurricanes in texas, florida, puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands, and wildfires in california. - led the first "our homes, our voices" national housing week of action july 22-29 featuring more than 60 events and activities in 28 states and dc, calling for increased investments in affordable homes and strong communities. Advocates sent letters, made calls to congress, hosted rallies, conducted tours of developments, held press events, and educated their communities and elected officials about the importance of federal funding for decent, accessible, and affordable homes. - protected critical hud and usda affordable housing and homelessness prevention programs from draconian cuts proposed by the administration for fiscal years 2017 and 2018, including protecting the national housing trust fund (htf) from proposals to defund it. (the htf is the first new funding in a generation to produce, rehabilitate and preserve homes for the lowest income people in america. ) nlihc also worked with other national partners to protect the low income housing tax credit from elimination in the tax law of 2017.