Subject: NHI News

• Reporting From The National Low Income Housing Coalition’s 2010 Annual Housing Policy Conference

  Rooflines, the blog of the National Housing Institute will be reporting live from the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s 2010 Annual Housing Policy Conference. Highlights will include presentations from HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, NLIHC’s Sheila Crowley, and Mercedes Marquez, HUD’s Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development. The conference will also include discussions of HUD’s new Transforming Rental Assistance program, sustainable communities, fair housing, low-income housing tax credits, poverty and housing affordability, and opportunities in green building and climate legislation. more

• Coverage from NCRC’s 2010 National Convention

  Rooflines, the blog of the National Housing Institute conducted live blogging from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition’s 2010 National Conference. Continued conference coverage, featuring real-time reporting and guest blogs can be found at Rooflines and on Facebook. This important annual event that featured a host of panels on topics that included financial protection, financial investment in your neighborhoods, strategies to influence elected officials, understanding refinance and mortgage modification, green jobs, and much, much more

• NHI/Shelterforce Mourns the Passing of Senator Edward Kennedy

  

  NHI/Shelterforce remembers Senator Edward Kennedy as a true progressive voice in the United States Senate and a champion for everyone struggling for a better life. He was a friend of working people and the poor, and a tireless fighter for civil rights, health care reform, affordable and fair housing, and worker rights. more

• NHI/Shelterforce Is On Facebook

  We’ve been here a while, but this is a great venue for one-stop shopping for national and industry news from National Housing Institute’s home page, as well as the latest from Shelterforce and Rooflines—NHI’s blog that attracts practitioners, CEOs, executive directors, foundations, journalists, advocates, and more. more

• Worse Than a Tornado: Neighborhood Stabilization Amid the Foreclosure Crisis

  

  NHI’s David Sailer appeared in the February 2009 issue of Planning magazine to address “the insidious destruction of entire neighborhoods now goes largely unnoticed.” With few exceptions, he says, “we allow thousands of properties to be abandoned or sent into legal limbo,” while encouraging the development of new housing. Sailer calls for implementation of a system that will allow organizations with a long-term commitment to local neighborhoods to acquire large numbers of scattered-site, bank-owned properties. Click here to download the PDF file. more