Page 6 - NLIHC 2017 Annual Report

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT & CEO
Dear NLIHC Members, Donors, and Friends
NLIHC’s work was never more important than in 2017, a year of movement-building and
responding to disasters and threats, both natural and political
NLIHC spearheaded the rst-ever Our Homes, Our Voices National Housing Week of Action the week of July 22-29, 2017, featuring more than 60 events and activities in 25 states (rallies, marches, press events, meetings with elected of cials, and much more) calling for increased investments in affordable homes and strong communities At the end of July, we launched a new “Our Homes, Our Votes” nonpartisan voter registration and mobilization project to engage more low income renters and affordable housing advocates in the electoral process
NLIHC promptly responded to the devastating 2017 hurricanes and wild res by establishing a Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition (DHRC)
of more than 700 national and local organizations — sharing key information, resources and advocacy strategies and communicating important disaster recovery recommendations to policy makers NLIHC connected local and state advocates with decision makers
in the administration and Congress through brie ngs and meetings, and the DHRC advocated strongly for a fair
and equitable housing recovery focusing on the needs of low income residents
Hundreds of
individuals
from around
the country
participated in the 2017 NLIHC Housing Policy Forum on advancing solutions
in the changing political landscape and engaged with keynote speakers HUD Secretary Ben Carson and U S Representative Maxine Waters We were pleased to honor East Bay Housing Organizations and the Non- Pro t Housing Association of Northern California with the 2017 Housing Organizer Awards and J Ronald Terwilliger and Amy Anthony with NLIHC’s Housing Leadership Awards
NLIHC received extensive media coverage of our research publications Out of Reach and The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, and our expertise was cited in over 3,500 times in media stories reaching tens of millions of individuals during the year We also achieved nearly 42,000 Twitter followers and 5,700,000 Twitter impressions in 2017
NLIHC continued to convene and lead
Diane Yentel, NLIHC President and CEO
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