National Housing Trust

Access to opportunity: the national housing trust believes in a balanced approach to fair housing, which promotes access to high opportunity communities through mobility, while ensuring that residents who remain in neighborhoods currently experiencing distress and concentrated poverty have access to housing resources and investments that improve their housing. This approach allows for affordable housing development and preservation in a variety of areas, while ensuring that residents have the right to choose where they live. For nht, opportunity means giving families and elderly residents a choice that is best for them. Choice means both improving the quality of life for residents of low-income communities as well as supporting mobility to "high opportunity" neighborhoods.

The trust provides assistance to government agencies and congressional committees and staff in connection with federal legislation affecting the existing supply of affordable housing. The trust provides technical assistance on a pro bono basis to non-profits, government agencies, and tenant associations seeking to preserve affordable low-income housing in a number of states. In 8 states, the trust engaged utilities, housing finance agencies and nonprofit housing developers to recommend that utilities provide a fair share of utility program energy retrofit funding for affordable housing occupied by low income renters.