Mission. The National Low Income Housing Coalition is dedicated solely to ending America’s affordable housing crisis.Goal 1: INFORM PUBLIC OPINION. The American people will have improved understanding of low income housing needs and solutions, how current federal policy impacts these needs, and how these needs directly affect them and their communities, and will increase their support for progressive low income housing policy and programs.Goal 2: INCREASE CAPACITY OF LOW INCOME HOUSING ADVOCATES. Low income housing advocates, including state housing and homeless coalitions, direct service providers, residents, and other low income people, will be better prepared to educate, will be more actively engaged in educating, and will be more skillful in holding accountable their members of Congress and state and local officials about low income housing problems and solutions and the effect of federal policy in general on the well-being of low income people.Goal 3. INCREASE FEDERAL POLICY MAKERS’ KNOWLEDGE. Federal policy makers will consider social justice issues, especially low income housing, to be a high priority on the federal policy agenda.Goal 4: PRESERVE EXISTING FEDERALLY ASSISTED HOUSING AND RESOURCES. There will be no further loss of federally assisted affordable housing units or federal resources for affordable housing or access to housing by extremely low income people.Goal 5: EXPAND FEDERAL INVESTMENT IN LOW INCOME HOUSING. The federal government will increase its investment in housing in order to produce, rehabilitate, preserve, and/or subsidize at least 1,500,000 units of housing that is affordable and accessible to the lowest income households in the next ten years and move forward on assuring decent and affordable housing for all people in the United States.Goal 6: IMPROVE NLIHC INTERNAL OPERATIONS. NLIHC will continue to improve its infrastructure in support of goals 1-5.
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