Amie Fishman in CS Monitor: Us Housing Crunch

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NPH Executive Director Amie Fishman was quoted, along with our subregional partner Peter Cohen from the Council of Community Housing Organizations (CCHO), in the Christian Science Monitor discussing the devastating effects caused by the lack of affordability in the Bay Area.

 

“All of it – the uncertainty and stress of where to live, of how to make ends meet, pay utilities, put food on the table – these are devastating choices people have to make,” says Amie Fishman, executive director of the San Francisco-based Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California. For those who get evicted or priced out of a neighborhood, she says, “you lose not just your home but your network, your support systems, the predictability of your life. Click here to read the full article.