Mar/Apr 1996
Issue #86
In this issue, we feature housing news from Santa Fe and Pittsburgh, and offer some nuts-and-bolts information on how housing advocates and nonprofits can prepare for the 1996 president election season.
The 1996 Campaign Season – How Housing Groups Can Make a Difference
The 1994 elections are history. Newt is on a tight leash, the Contract on America is losing in the polls, and Clinton and Dole are all but nominated. Soon, the […]
Shelter Shorts
Public Housing Ordered for Dallas Suburbs On one of many lawsuits filed against HUD, local housing authorities, and cities to reverse decades of ghettoization of poor minorities, a federal judge […]
Organizing to Build a Movement
In December 1994, President Bill Clinton proposed converting public housing and project-based Section 8 into vouchers. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Congressman Rick Lazio (R-NY), chairman of the housing subcommittee, […]
NHI Activities
March/April 1996 NHI Activities NHI in Cyberspace – John Atlas, NHI board president, and Harold Simon, NHI executive director, participated in the recent Markle Foundation-supported interactive budget simulation game, Reinventing […]