By Vanessa Raymond-Garcia, RHLS Policy Analyst Renters need help before they can afford to pay what they owe. Emergency rental assistance programs are likely to partially or fully close across…
Category: Policy: Affordable Housing
Renting a LIHTC* home: Everything you need to know.
RHLS has published a new, comprehensive tenants’ guide to Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) rentals, explaining the ins and outs of this important but not well-understood program. The guide is…
“This is an equity issue at its core.” Dina Schlossberg offers testimony to Philadelphia City Council.
RHLS Executive Director, Dina Schlossberg, joined colleagues from the housing advocacy community to testify at a Philadelphia City Council hearing on the expiring affordable housing contracts in the city. The…
Building Inclusive Communities Report on Inclusionary Zoning Updated with New Information
Bob Damewood, RHLS Senior Staff Attorney, prepared a report in 2015 for the Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania, titled:Â Building Inclusive Communities: A Review of Local Conditions, Legal Authority, and Best Practices…
If you fix it, they will stay. Cindy Daley offers testimony on home repair as a critical affordable housing retention strategy.
Testimony to the Senate Democratic Policy CommitteeDecember 8, 2021 Home Repairs as an Affordable Housing Solution Good morning. My name is Cindy Daley. I am the Director of Community Development…