Housing

NETWORK strongly supports individual, corporate and governmental actions that help support (or renew) healthy ecosystems. The homes in which we live tell much about our environmental values.

Tenant-based rental assistance grew from its inception in 1974 until 2002.  There were no new vouchers until 2008, when about 15,000 new vouchers were established to compensate for 150,000 lost. Another 13,000 new vouchers were funded in 2009.

The National Housing Trust Fund is a source of funding for construction, acquisition and rehabilitation of (mostly) rental units for very-low and extremely low-income households. 

Extremely low-income households earn at or below 30% of the area median income (ami), and there are only 37 affordable units for every 100 households at that level.   This contributes to family homelessness.  

The National Housing Trust Fund was authorized in July 2008, but its funding sources were lost with the burst of the housing bubble.

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NETWORK believes that access to affordable, safe housing is an essential human right. 

A place to call home is integral to the secure development of family and other relationships.