Power Station

We have reached a hopeful moment in the decades-long and hard-fought campaign for a housing policy framework that acknowledges the need for all Americans to have a safe and affordable place to call home. The national conversation about the housing affordability crisis is finally catching up to the mission that the National Low Income Housing Coalition was founded, in 1974, to advance. The Coalition advocates for and with lowest-income renters, who are the most severely cost-burdened tenants, and ensures that their voices are centered in policy debates. Congress is on the cusp of passing the 21st Century Road to Housing Bill, the largest housing legislation in a decade, a supply-side strategy for addressing a wholly insufficient supply. In this episode of Power Station I speak with Renee Williams, Senior Advisor for Public Policy at the Coalition about the non-supply provisions of the legislation that are most promising for low income tenants, including administrative solutions to housing voucher and disaster