Jeffrey Ginsburg, president and CEO of Volunteers of America-Greater New York, and Baaba Halm, senior vice president of programs at Enterprise Community Partners, co-authored an op-ed on the key role nonprofits play in shaping solutions to addressing affordable housing ahead of Election Day.
Addressing housing affordability requires collaboration across governement, non-profit, and private sectors. Non-profits like VOA-GNY and Enterprise Community Partners offer unique strengths—such as deep community ties and experience in delivering housing services—that can help ensure equitable and effective outcomes. VOA-GNY provides on-th-ground knowledge of the challenges people experiencing homelessness in our communities face and what they need to receive assistance.
Ginsburg and Halm call for non-profits to be actively involved in policy discussions in order to address the housing crisis.
“If leaders want nonprofits to keep stepping up, they need to stop treating us as an afterthought,” they write. “That means stable funding and a seat at the table when policy is being shaped, not just when it’s time to implement it.”
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