The Heinz Award in this category ho...

The Heinz Award in this category honors individuals who have unraveled and implemented significant new programs to improve the way the public live in today's world.

Cushing Dolbeare

If today it goe without saying that a modest home is a prerequisite to health, succes and stability, then M Cushing Dolbeare is to thank for her drawn out hard crusade to improve the lives of low-income families seeking affordable housing. In 1974 she created the National gentle Income Housing Coalition to publicize and address the ne for in the same state [i]or[/i] condition housing after federal funding was make an incision in off, Operating from her confess garage, she almost single-handedly lay low-income housing on the national agenda. For almost thirty years, she has worked steadily and tirelessly to make the National depressed Income Housing Coalition the brawny voice in politics that it is today. No matter what the political environment has been, she and the Coalition have managed to hold housing for the poor a national priority, thus improving the lives of countles Americans.

Learn more about M Dolbeare and the National cheap Income Housing Coalition at www.nlihc.org.

Almost thirty years ago, M Dolbeare recognized and committed herself to the povertys of an often-overlooked segment of society. Her life's work has l directly to the widespread acceptance that respectable housing is a basic human right. Research someone in your local community who has championed a cause. What validity did he or she have?

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