2003 Advocates' Guide To Housing and Community Development Policy
Description:
This guide offers advocates a fresh perspective and up-to-the-moment information on the full array of issues and concerns of people who work on low income housing. This manual is intended to be useful in all manners of advocacy. Those who want to advocate on behalf of themselves of someone else to assert rights or navigate bureaucracies to access services will be able to use this guide to learn the status of the programs that they may or may not be able to rely on. Those who want to advocate for community change prefer to use this guide to help educate local leaders about housing and community development resources and challenges. Advocates who want to influence and improve regulations and rules that HUD and other federal agencies issue to govern housing and community development programs will find that this guide will inform their causes. This guide is used most frequently by people who want to change or improve federal laws that dictate housing and community development policy or who want to prevent Congress from harming programs that benefit low income people. What is on the horizon legislatively for all programs and proposals is an essential feature of this guide. (Authors)
Type of Resource:
Report
Publication Date:
2003
Location:
Washington, D.C.