National Low Income Housing Coalition

Today, NLIHC announced that Diane Yentel, president & CEO, is stepping down from her position early next year after nearly nine years at the organization’s helm & 12 years at NLIHC. The NLIHC Board of Directors will soon launch a nationwide search for the next president & CEO. “I am, as ever, deeply grateful, optimistic, & confident in both NLIHC’s future & in our country’s ability to end homelessness & housing poverty, once & for all. Until then, whether leading here or elsewhere, I’ll be with NLIHC in the struggle for housing justice." ~ Diane Yentel For more, read the press release at: https://bit.ly/3zYfBLF

I'm grateful to our incredible partners who are deeply committed to housing justice through the Opportunity Starts at Home campaign. Last week, over 40 leading national organizations on our Roundtable came together, united by a shared goal: making safe, affordable housing a reality for all. This level of collaboration is what drives lasting change. I’m excited to continue this work alongside such passionate leaders and partners.

Join us in applauding Diane Yentel at this year's Rainbow Annual Awards banquet, as she will be receiving the Innovative Service Enriched Housing Partner of the Year Award! Diane Yentel is the President and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC). With over 25 years of experience working on affordable housing, Diane is a leading national expert on housing insecurity and homelessness. Under her leadership, NLIHC has strengthened the movement for housing justice, leading major national campaigns to achieve historic federal protections and investments for low-income renters and people experiencing homelessness during the pandemic. It is leaders like her who should be honored when given the chance. Thank you, Diane, for fearlessly leading the affordable housing industry. We can not wait to celebrate you next month at the event! #rainbowhousing #industryleader #awardsbanquet #affordablehousing

NLIHC released the Fall 2024 issue of?Tenant Talk, our semiannual newsletter designed to engage residents in housing advocacy. The new issue,?Tenant Talk: Voting as Collective Action, features articles on the importance of elections in tenant communities. Census data reveal that low-income people vote at lower rates than those in higher income brackets. This pattern is due in large part to long-standing barriers, such as difficulties taking time off from work to vote, obtaining legal identification, and accessing transportation to polling places. In addition, racial and other forms of discrimination, as well as increased exposure to misinformation about voting, further hinder voter participation. People experiencing homelessness, returning citizens, and survivors of disasters face especially tough barriers to voting. These challenges are exacerbated by efforts in some states to suppress the votes of low-income tenants, who are disproportionately people of color, young people, senior citizens, and people with disabilities. Download a digital copy,?or?register to?receive a free physical copy?in the mail!?Digital copies will soon be available in Spanish. https://lnkd.in/gfXEsYcs

I was live on CSPAN last week, talking about the rental housing affordability crisis and its solutions. We need more market supply, yes. And, we also need much more - affordable units, rental assistance, and tenant protections. Full interview is here: https://lnkd.in/dyFPXKzF

Our State and Local Innovation (SLI) project released today a set of toolkits highlighting four key tenant protections: just cause eviction laws, rent stabilization policies, code enforcement procedures and habitability standards, and measures limiting rental junk fees. Each toolkit overviews a major tenant protection, details its common components, summarizes state and local examples of the protection, and highlights complementary policies. https://lnkd.in/eZkNxyZf

What we know and don't know about the two largest affordable rental housing programs working together. Great that Dan Emmanuel, I and National Low Income Housing Coalition could contribute to Cityscape's special issue on 50 years of tenant-based rental assistance https://lnkd.in/eg-qJB7q

Today NLIHC’s State and Local Innovation (SLI) project released a?new publication exploring?just cause eviction laws! The publication highlights two successful efforts to pass just cause protections – one in Oregon and the other in Washington State – and?is part of NLIHC’s State and Local Tenant Protection Series: A Primer on Renters’ Rights, a collection of resources aiming to shape the conversation about state and local tenant protections. Download the new case study: https://lnkd.in/gzzWmkBg Find a list of existing state and local “just cause” laws: https://lnkd.in/gNPvRCR8 Learn more about NLIHC's SLI project: https://lnkd.in/eiw2qBUN

Today we released Out of Reach 2024: The High Cost of Housing. Published annually, the Out of Reach report highlights the gulf between the wages people earn and the price of modest rental housing in every state, county, and metropolitan area in the U.S. This year’s report shows that despite rising wages, cooling inflation, and low unemployment, low-wage workers and other renters with low incomes continue to struggle with the cost of rent. Given the inadequate housing safety net and increasingly unaffordable rents, it is no surprise that homelessness is on the rise. Addressing these challenges requires long-term federal investments in affordable housing and the Housing First model for ending homelessness. Learn more here: https://nlihc.org/oor