NHT Updates
We are thrilled that this week, legislators introduced The Save Affordable Housing Act, a crucial piece of legislation needed to preserve irreplaceable affordable rental housing serving low-income families. Over the past two years, NHT has led the effort to build congressional understanding and support for this critical legislation.
Thoughtful, strategic investment in the capacity of housing finance agencies can yield huge dividends. That has certainly been the case with the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency (Minnesota Housing), which accepted an Energy Foundation grant in 2015 to fund an Energy Efficiency Fellow.
Now in its second year, the Where Will We Live team is working make its gallery of resident stories a resource that our partners can use to help make the case for affordable housing for low-income residents.
The third annual Housing Week of Action highlighted critical connections between housing and access to opportunity, education, healthcare, jobs, and supportive services. NHT’s email series: More Than A Home, explored these connections using personal stories of residents from the Where Will We Live campaign.
Last month, Where Will We Live (WWWL) collaborated with the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s Opportunity Starts at Home (OSAH) campaign to launch a podcast featuring resident stories from across the country that were captured as part of WWWL.
In marking Washington D.C.’s June Housing Bloom, we are celebrating the work of the National Housing Trust in preserving affordable housing in the District of Columbia across 15 properties and more than 800 affordable homes.