Now Available: Advocates' Guide 2025!
NLIHC released today Advocates' Guide 2025: A Primer on Federal Affordable Housing and Community Development Programs and Policies. Published annually, the Advocates' Guide is a comprehensive resource designed for advocates and others involved in affordable housing and community development advocacy.
The Advocates' Guide comprises hundreds of pages of useful information and articles written by leading experts in the affordable housing and community development field, educating readers about the programs and policies that make housing affordable to low-income individuals across America.
Chapter-by-chapter highlights:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
Sets the stage for the housing justice movement and outlines NLIHC's 2025 federal priorities: expand rental assistance, preserve affordable housing, establish renter protections, and support equitable disaster recovery.
- Chapter 2: Advocacy Resources
Explains how to influence federal policy, navigate the appropriations process, fight NIMBYism, and organize tenants. Packed with tips for lobbying, media engagement, and coalition-building.
- Chapter 3: National Housing Trust Fund
Details the HTF's vital role in building and preserving deeply affordable homes-and how expanding it can fight the housing shortage for extremely low-income renters.
- Chapter 4: Rental Programs for Lowest-Income Households
Covers all major HUD and USDA programs like Housing Choice Vouchers, RAD, and public housing-plus tools for protecting and improving them.
- Chapter 5: Additional Housing Programs
Unpacks HOME, LIHTC, bonds, Native housing programs, and emergency aid that fill crucial funding gaps.
- Chapter 6: Special Housing Issues
Deep dive into the unique needs of survivors, disabled renters, returning citizens, immigrants, manufactured housing residents, and more-plus policy solutions.
- Chapter 7: Tenant Protections & Eviction Prevention
Presents models for rent control, just cause eviction, right to counsel, eviction record sealing, and a National Tenants Bill of Rights.
- Chapter 8: Housing Tools
How to use fair housing laws, HUD planning processes, CRA, and Housing First strategies to promote equity and inclusion.
- Chapter 9: Community Development Resources
Overview of tools like CDBG and the Capital Magnet Fund that support local housing and infrastructure projects.
- Chapter 10: Disaster Recovery & Resilience
Explains how disasters affect low-income renters and calls for equitable, long-term recovery policies-including permanent CDBG-DR authorization.
- Chapter 11: About NLIHC
Ways to engage with and support NLIHC's advocacy, research, and campaigns.
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Advocates' Guide
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Ismar Enriquez, AIA
Practice
Pasadena CA
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