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Housing Trust Fund Progress Report: 2007
Learn more about the nearly 600 housing trust nationwide that contribute $1.6 billion each year towards critical housing needs. The report outlines characteristics of housing trust funds and emerging trends within this burgeoning movement: state laws enabling local trust funds, regional funds and housing trust funds serving people with the lowest incomes.
To order your copy, click below to download and return an order form or contact Maribel Molina-Villa at mvilla@www.communitychange.org.
Click here to order your 2007 Housing Trust Fund Progress Report
NEWS from the Housing Trust Fund Project
This is an informative quarterly report about campaigns to create new Funds, and developments involving existing Funds. It Includes updates, tips, advice, ideas, and strategies.
Housing Trust Fund Progress Report 2002: Local Responses to America's Housing Needs (pdf, 1,890kb)
(2002, 85 pages) This report provides the only comprehensive description of the more than 350 existing housing trust funds in the United States. The report contains a chapter on state, city, county, and multi-jurisdictional housing trust funds and their characteristics. The report also provides numerous examples of what housing trust funds have accomplished and why they are so successful. If you prefer a paper copy, please call (661) 245-0318 or email htfp@www.communitychange.org.
A Workbook for Creating a Housing Trust Fund
(1999, 75 pages) At the time of this publication, nearly 150 state and local governments had created trust funds to support affordable housing. This workbook explains how to assemble a proposal for a new fund and put together a campaign to get that proposal enacted.
Winning at the Local Level: 5 Housing Trust Fund Campaigns Tell Their Stories
Housing trust funds are distinct funds established by legislation, ordinance or resolution to receive dedicated public revenues, which can only be spent on housing. These funds work to serve the affordable housing needs in communities across the nation. Currently, there are more than 350 housing trust funds in cities, counties and states through the country and the Project's newest publication tells the stories of five city/county campaigns.
Because housing trust fund campaigns have been so clever and imaginative, it seemed prudent to take the time to capture some of what has been accomplished and convey these lessons to those who might work on housing trust funds in the future.
The stories were compiled from personal interviews with dozens of players in each city. The stories are captivating and remarkable. They provide lessons, experiences from what can go right and what can go wrong, and victories that literally change the complexion of affordable housing in these cities.
Resources
National Housing Trust Fund
The Housing Trust Fund Project participates in various activities for the National Housing Trust Fund Campaign, a special campaign of the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC). The National Housing Trust Fund Campaign is a coalition of more than 5000 organizations working to establish a National Housing Trust Fund that would build and preserve 1.5 million units of rental housing for the lowest income families over the next 10 years.
Building on the success of the more than 350 state and local housing trust funds nationwide, the National Housing Trust Fund would:
Invest billions of dollars in NEW FEDERAL RESOURCES.
Establish an ongoing, permanent DEDICATED source of revenue (a trust fund).
BUILD, REHABILITATE and PRESERVE at least 1.5 million units of primarily rental, primarily deeply targeted housing.
Visit the National Housing Trust Fund website
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