Join the fight to SAVE OUR HOMES and build the US tenant movement!

Meet with top officials from HUD! Take our message to Congress on Lobby Day!

Attend tenant-led workshops on topics including:

• How to Build Strong Tenants Associations
• How to Fight Management Harassment
• How to Fight Urban Displacement & Gentrification
• Next Steps in US & Global Tenants Rights Movements
• How to Respond to Expiring HUD Contracts
• How to Replace Substandard Management
• HUD's Rental Assistance Demonstration: Threat, or Benefit?

Due to COVID-19 precautions, the 2021 conference will take place virtually on Zoom.

Register here!

The 2021 NAHT Annual Meeting will take place on Zoom as part of the 2021 NAHT Annual Conference.  A Zoom link and conference call number will be provided to all Voting Member and Associate Member Group Representatives three days prior to the meeting. 

Please note that most current dues will expire prior to June 28.  Be sure to renew your group’s dues no later than Friday, June 18, 2021. $25 dues will entitle all members of your board or committee to register free of additional charge for the entire NAHT Conference. 

            NAHT’s Annual Membership Meeting will convene at 3:15 p.m. on June 28, 2021 during the Virtual NAHT conference and may be continued at subsequent times on that date.  The meeting will hear and vote on board reports on NAHT activities and elect a new Board of Directors.

            Voting membership in NAHT is open to resident organizations in current or formerly HUD-assisted and/or insured multi-family housing. This includes Public Housing developments proposed for conversion to private ownership by a Public Housing Agency through Notice to tenants pursuant to HUD’s Rental Assistance Demonstration or other programs; resident owner groups, or organizing committees, that meet regularly, are democratic, representative of all groups in their development, independent of non-resident owners or management agents, and are committed to permanently affordable housing for low and moderate income people.

            Each member organization will have one vote at the membership meeting.  The dues for resident organizations are currently $25 annually for voting membership and are effective for one year from date of receipt. Voting member groups will be able to vote at NAHT’s Special Membership Meeting and in elections for the NAHT Board of Directors.  Only designated representatives of dues-paying voting member groups in good standing may vote for or run for the NAHT board.

            Associate (non-voting) membership in NAHT is open to non-profit organizations that work with HUD tenants and share the goals and objectives of NAHT.  Associate member group representatives may attend the Special Membership Meeting as observers but may not vote in membership proceedings.

David Nollman, Secretary
National Alliance of HUD Tenants

NAHT Statement on the Murder of George Floyd
and the Movement for Racial Justice and Change
6/5/20

As a multiracial organization of working class tenants in privately-owned, HUD assisted housing, NAHT’s elected all-tenant Board condemns the abhorrent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Stephon Clark, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless others before them. These murders at the hands of racist police and vigilantes reflect the sordid 400 year history of white supremacy and violent racial subjugation that has stained our country since its inception. The systemic trauma this violence inflicts daily on all people of color, and the destructive sickness of racism that causes it, affect us all. This must end, and it must end now.

National Alliance of HUD Tenants Annual Conference by Zoom! Monday, June 29 through Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Three Days of Exciting Zoom Meetings!
All sessions start at Noon EDT

Monday June 29: Group Awards to tell NAHT’s Story and Vision for 2020
Invited Guest Speakers at 1 pm
NAHT Annual Meeting (Voting Reps only) at 3:15 pm

Tuesday June 30: Plenary Session with Top HUD Officials (confirmed)
Help Advance NAHT’s Tenant Empowerment Agenda

Wednesday July 1: Senate and House Lobby Forums
Invited key Senate and House Leaders

Tenant-Led Workshops Including:
HUD Tenants Rights Under COVID
Protecting Senior High Rise buildings from COVID
How to Fight Management Harassment and Abuse
Racism, Displacement and Gentrification in HUD Housing
How to Save Our Homes from Market Conversion
Enforcing the Right to Organize
Organizing Tenants in “Tax Credit” Buildings

All members of Tenant Groups that renew dues or join NAHT, will be able to participate in ALL Conference meetings, for NO additional registration fee!

NAHT’s Membership Dues for building-level Tenant Groups, are $25 per group per year. You can pay or renew your group’s dues online or mail to it NAHT. 

Non-profit tenant organizing or advocacy groups can join NAHT as non-voting Associate Members. Associate Member dues are on a sliding scale based on budget ($75 for organizations with budgets under $25,000 per year; $125 for budgets between $25,000 and $100,000 per year; $225 if over $100,000 per year).

Please submit your Board or Committee or Staff list with your dues payment, including emails and cellphone numbers, so that ALL your organizations members can participate in NAHT Conference sessions! 

Individuals who are not from a Tenant Group or Associate Member organization can participate in the conference for $25. Click here to pay your individual 2020 Conference fee.

For more information, email NAHT at: [email protected]
Or call 617-522-4523 or 617-233-1885
mail – National Alliance of HUD Tenants, 42 Seaverns Ave., Jamaica Plain MA 02130
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nahudtenants
Twitter: @nahudtenants

On January 20, 2020, elected leaders of the national US tenants’ union released a sweeping “Save Our Homes Platform” for the 2020 Elections, and denounced HUD’s proposed new rule to dismantle Fair Housing protections.

“On the eve of Dr. Martin Luther King Day, the Trump Administration has proposed a new rule to gut Fair Housing Protections and threaten tenants nationwide,” said Geraldine Collins, President of the NAHT Board who lives in senior housing on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. “HUD should be working to undo decades of federally-sponsored segregation in housing and neighborhoods, not make institutional racism worse. We demand that HUD withdraw this dangerous proposal.”

NAHT also released its Save Our Homes Platform for the 2020 Elections on MLK Day. In contrast to the Trump Administration’s policy to dismantle Fair Housing protections, NAHT calls for full implementation of the AFFH rule and support for a $200 billion Anti-Displacement Fund to remedy past discrimination. NAHT’s Platform also calls for:

· Universal Section 8 Vouchers for all low income renters who need them
· Full funding for Public and Section 8 Housing and $100 billion to rebuild Public Housing over 10 years
· $2.5 trillion to build 10 million affordable mixed income apartments over the next decade

Founded in 1991, NAHT is the national tenants union representing 1.2 million Section 8 families in privately-owned, HUD assisted multifamily housing. NAHT’s mission is to empower residents to save and improve their homes as affordable housing.

NAHT can connect interested media outlets with resident leaders and organizations across the US for local comments. Contact: Michael Kane, [email protected] 617-522-4523 or 617-233-1885.