Mission

OUR MISSION

The Housing Alliance is a statewide coalition working to provide leadership and a common voice for policies, practices, and resources to ensure that all Pennsylvanians, especially those with low incomes, have access to safe, decent and affordable homes. 

We promote common-sense solutions to balance Pennsylvania’s housing market and increase the supply of safe, decent homes for low-income people.

Find out more about our history and work here.

OUR VALUES

• Equity
  • We acknowledge that not everyone starts in the same place with the same opportunities. We strive to create an adaptive and equitable culture by centering our organization’s mission, functions and activities to elevate our communities’ uniqueness – particularly with consideration to marginalized communities – and address them in a fair and just manner so they can engage in meaningful participation and leadership in the housing sector.
    • Cultural Humility, Promote Inclusiveness
• Integrity
  • We unify our mission through data, research, and evidence driven best practices by embracing honesty, open communication and accountability as central tenets of our organization to fulfill our vision.
    • Accountability, Open Communication
• Impact
  • We intentionally develop activities with clear goals and measurable outcomes that align with our stakeholders’ voices through fostering education, collaboration, growth, adaptability, and hope.
    • Adaptability, Collaboration, Education

OUR APPROACH

We engage both people with lived experience and those providing direct assistance (including nonprofits, local government, housing developers and providers, and service providers) what needs to be in place to address housing inequities that are preventing us all from creating scalable solutions. 

We then design and advocate for policies and promote program strategies to address these systemic barriers that perpetuate inequities in achieving housing affordability. 

We determine our priorities by answering the following questions:  

1. What priorities reflect the greatest need across the state?  

2. What can we achieve in a relatively short period of time to ensure change is made even if incrementally? And specifically, what policy changes can we propose that are likely to be agreed to by legislators in the current policy environment relatively soon? 

3. What policy changes may take a longer time but are important enough to pursue as a multi-year initiative? 

4. What program strategies will make local programs more available and accessible to those seeking direct assistance? 

OUR WORK

Advocacy and Lobbying

• Promote policies, legislation, and programs that support our mission
• Update our membership of legislative happenings
• Meet with legislators and their staff to advance critical legislation
• Provide opportunities for advocacy and lobbying at the state and federal levels
  • Home Matters Day takes place annually in the late spring in Harrisburg. For more details please visit our Home Matters Day Page
  • Capitol Hill Day takes place in the early spring in Washington DC in partnership with the National Low Income Housing Coalition
• Make advocacy easy by providing information including fact sheets and talking points

Education

• Coordinate peer to peer learning on different topics
• Host regularly occurring webinars
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• Organize the annual Homes Within Reach conference
• Elevate new resources and highlight promising practices

Supporting Local Practitioners

• Convene local practitioners to advance programs
• Lend capacity and credibility to promote programs and policy solutions

Technical Assistance

• Share information and expertise with communities
• Assist with capacity building and staff training
• Assess feasibility of new programs
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Find out more about our history and work here.

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