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Spring Newsletter: South Dakota Passes Housing Opportunity Fund

Read about a victory in Arkansas, innovations in Polk County, Iowa, implementation in Virginia, accomplishments in St. Louis, Missouri, and more.

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Help United for Homes Secure Funding for the NHTF

Support United for Homes proposal to fund the National Housing Trust Fund with revenue from modifications to the mortgage interest deduction.

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Three New Toolkits for Housing Trust Fund Advocates

State of State Housing Trust Funds; Impact of Research Evidence as an Advocacy Tool; & State Legislation to Promote Local Housing Trust Funds.

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Winter Newsletter: San Francisco Voters Pass Housing Trust Fund!

Read about victories in Bellingham, WA, Berkeley, CA, Ann Arbor, MI and the state of Michigan, advocates in New Jersey, and progress from Iowa and Washington…

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Voters Approve Nine Housing Trust Funds Nov 6

Voters in San Francisco, California; in Bellingham, Washington; in the Massachusetts communities of Beverly, Canton, Fall River, Great Barrington, Salem, Somerset, and Somerville enacted housing…

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CLOUT’s 2012 Nehemiah action brought 1,600 leaders together to address key community issues, including the Affordable Housing Trust Fund.

Fall Newsletter: CLOUT keeps the pressure on in Louisville

Read about the housing trust funds campaigns in Louisville (KY), Bellingham (WA), California, Louisiana, Massachusetts and Rhode Island in the Fall 2012 HTFP Newsletter.

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Summer Newsletter: Alabama Housing Trust Victory!

Three years of persistent and strategic advocacy by the Alabama advocates culminated in victory this May in Montgomery. Read more about Alabama’s new housing trust fund…

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Housing Trust Funds: A Growing Movement

There are now 47 states with housing trust funds, as well as the District of Columbia, and more than 600 city and county housing trust funds…

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What Are Housing Trust Funds?

Housing trust funds are distinct funds established by city, county or state governments that receive ongoing dedicated sources of public funding to support the preservation and production of affordable housing and increase opportunities for families and individuals to access decent affordable homes.  Housing trust funds systemically shift affordable housing funding from annual budget allocations to the commitment of dedicated public revenue.   While housing trust funds can also be a repository for private donations, they are not public/private partnerships, nor are they endowed funds operating from interest and other earnings.  Click here to learn more.

National HTF

Thanks to years of dedication and hard work from housing advocates across the country, Congress established the National Housing Trust Fund in 2008.  The primary focus of the National Housing Trust Fund Campaign is now securing funding to capitalize the NHTF.  To learn more, click here.

How HTFs Work

The popularity of housing trust funds is attributable in large part to their inherent flexibility. They can be designed to serve the most critical housing needs in each community, whatever those may be.  Defining the key elements of your housing trust fund proposal is a critical first step toward establishing a housing trust fund that will be efficient, effective, and responsive to your community’s needs. To learn more, click here.


Publication and Resource Library

The Housing Trust Fund Project provides a wide array of resources available for download to assist in the development and an implementation of housing trust funds. For links to an example document library, Housing Trust Fund Project publications, and our Newsletter archive, click here.