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House Hunt: Low-Income Housing in the U.S.
July 18, 2001
Listen/download helpAcross the United States, some low-income families are working together, with housing advocacy groups and government programs, to move from renting to owning their homes. On this program, we take a look at ways families are overcoming the affordable housing crisis.
Featuring:
Arturo Gonzales, executive director of the SouthEastern Wisconsin Housing Corporation; Michael Davies and Dolores Perkins, participants in the SouthEastern Wisconsin Housing Corporation home building program; Dimple Simpson, home owner through the section 8 voucher program; Gary Truelson, manager of the Vallejo Housing Authority; Lynn Martinez, attorney with the National Housing Law Project; James Tracy, Coalition on Homelessness in San Francisco, California; Esther and Manuel Sahagun, members of Una Nueva Esperanza Community Land Trust; Brenda Torpy Castro, Burlington Community Land Trust in Vermont; Sarah Page, Executive Director of the Institute for Community Economics; Selena Mack Castro, Director of Durham Community Land Trustees in North Carolina.
For more information:
SouthEastern Wisconsin Housing Corporation
308 Milwaukee Ave.
Burlington, Wisconsin
877-865-1948
Durham Community Land Trustees
1401 Morehead Ave.
Durham, North Carolina 27707
919-490-0063; dclt@earthlink.net
National Housing Law Project
614 Grand Ave. #320
Oakland, California 94612
510-251-9400 x110
www.nhlp.org
Institute for Community Economics
57 School Street
Springfield, Massachusetts 01105
413-746-8660
www.iceclt.org
Burlington Community Land Trust
P.O. Box 523
Burlington, Vermont 05402
802-862-6244
www.getahome.org
Vallejo Housing Authority
200 Georgia St.
Vallejo, California 94590
707-648-4393
Una Nueva Esperanza Community Land Trust
831-443-6334