housing
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CONTACT: National Low Income Housing Coalition |
NLIHC's Sheila Crowley Testifies on Funding for National Housing Trust Fund
WASHINGTON - July 10 - National Low Income Housing Coalition President Sheila Crowley testified before the House Financial Services Committee on July 9 in support of newly introduced legislation that would provide funding for the National Housing Trust Fund for fiscal year 2010.
The National Housing Trust Fund was signed into law in July 2008 but has not yet received funding. Once funded, the housing trust fund will provide communities across the country with funds to build, preserve, and rehabilitate rental homes that are affordable for extremely and very low income households.
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CONTACT: National Low Income Housing Coalition |
Foreclosures Lead to Homelessness for Many, Joint Report Finds
WASHINGTON - June 26 - Nearly 80% of homeless service and advocacy agencies report that at least some of their clients became homeless as a result of a foreclosure, and one in five estimate that more than 40% of their clients became homeless because of a foreclosure.
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CONTACT: National Low Income Housing Coalition |
Toolkit for Renters Facing Eviction Due to Foreclosure Now Available on NLIHC Website
WASHINGTON - June 19 - The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) has collaborated with the National Housing Law Project (NHLP) to create a new online toolkit providing a range of information for renters facing foreclosure-related evictions, their advocates, and others, including members of the media. The components of the toolkit explain the implications of the recently passed Protecting Tenants in Foreclosure Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-22, Division A, Title VII), a bill that offers important new rights to tenants living in properties that have gone into foreclosure.
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CONTACT: Applied Research Center (ARC) Yana Walton - 347.296.8921 or yana@representinc.com |
New Report Findings Link Racial Discrimination to Economic Recession
Applied Research Center Says Solving Structural Inequities will Alleviate Recession
NEW YORK - May 18 - A report released today by the Applied Research Center (ARC), a racial justice think-tank, finds that an inclusive and equitable national economic recovery will require that the country address deep patterns of racial discrimination and disparities. The report, titled "Race & Recession," found that numerous policies and institutional practices that create racial inequity are among the root causes of the subprime mortgage crisis and economic downturn.