- Helped win full funding for Section 8, in 2004, 2005 and 2006, despite
Bush Aministration attempts to cut 600,000 families from Section 8 by
2010
- Helped stop Administration proposals to 'block grant" Section
8 to local Housing Authorities and impose time limits and rent increases
on tenants
- Won the "Shumer Amendment" in 2005 requiring HUD to foreclose
and sell "troubled" housing with project-based Section 8
- Persuaded HUD & Congress to create the Mark to Market and Mark
Up to Market programs to save at-risk housing
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Won required notice to tenants of landlord decisions to opt-out of
Section 8 or prepay their HUD mortgages
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Persuaded Congress to include $974 million for "expiring use"
HUD housing in 1996-1997
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Defeated the Clinton Administration’s "mass voucherization" plan
which had put 1.6 million Section 8 families at riskFought successfully
to moderate HUD’s controversial "Mark to Market" plan, protecting
affordable housing and winning a role for tenants in the 1997 Housing
Act
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In December, 2001, NAHT became the first national tenants organization
from the United States to be accepted as a voting member of the International
Union of Tenants, which has consultative NGO status with the United
Nations
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NAHT board president Louise Sanchez testified before a Senate subcommittee
hearing on the Loss of affordable housing and it's impact on tenants.
Ms. Sanchez testified to legislative recommendations and reported
on the current administration's effort to undermine the preservation
of at-risk housing Read
it here...
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Persuaded Congress to include $974 million to preserve "expiring
use" HUD housing in FY 96 and 97
- Won extension by Congress in 1998 of required notice to tenants of
landlord decisions to opt-out of Section 8 or prepay their HUD mortgages
- During the year 2002, NAHT advocacy resulted in successful HUD Headquarters
interventions to help preserve at-risk buildings in Delaware, Maryland,
St. Louis, Philadelphia and Minnesota. In Los Angeles and Rhode Island,
local NAHT affiliates were able to challenge opt outs in court due to
failure to comply with state two-year Notice laws when owners opt out
- NAHT advocacy with the IUT led to the first International Tenants/Save
Our Homes Day in October 2002
- Recently, NAHT also joined the Habitat International Coalition, and
won support from HIC for broadening International Save Our Homes Day
to at least 50 countries in 2003
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