Vice President Biden announces aid for New Orleans
Rehabilitating the nearly 65,000 distressed properties in New Orleans will not only directly house those in need, but will make it possible to help realize goals of other housing initiatives.
View ArticleHousing affordability decreasing for low-income renters.
New data released by the Census Bureau's American Housing Survey reveals that, for low- and extremely-low income renters, finding affordable housing has become more difficult during the recession. The...
View ArticleThe federal budget and affordable housing
As Congress and the President continue to debate what the federal budget should and shouldn’t look like, the MCC Washington Office continues to advocate for protection and investment in programs which...
View ArticleCuts continue to happen as long as we don’t speak up…
The National Low Income Housing Coalition comments on the proposed Fiscal Year 2011 budget to be voted on today in the Senate (and has passed the House this afternoon). Including a 6.4% decrease in...
View Article“Out of Reach” housing costs
Today the National Low Income Housing Coalition released it’s 2011 report Out of Reach, detailing the costs of rental housing when compared with wages and work hours in each United States district and...
View ArticleAction Alert: End housing injustice in Haiti
Take action and sign a letter to support civil society organizations in Haiti as they petition the Haitian government to address the housing crisis exacerbated by the earthquake on January 12, 2010 and...
View Article‘Under Tents’ Campaign Demands Housing Rights in Haiti
Under Tents, an international campaign for housing rights in Haiti, released a housing brief this week highlighting the facts on the country’s internally-displaced persons (IDPs). Thirty-three months...
View ArticleHaitian IDP Camps Removed from Official List
This week, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced that of the 1.5 million people originally displaced by the 2010 earthquake, less than 200,000 people are still living in...
View ArticleThe winding road from camps to villages
Reflections on a recent visit to one of Port-au-Prince’s remaning tent encampment from Charissa Zehr: Our host, Elie, told us about his experiences as a camp committee leader in Accra. Residents still...
View ArticleFooling The Sun, Not Fooling The Rain
On Monday, November 24, the MCC U.S. Washington Office hosted a conference entitled “Fooling the Sun, Not Fooling the Rain: Housing and Shelter in Haiti 5 Years After the Earthquake.” The event was...
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