About the Trust

Mission

The National Housing Trust preserves and revitalizes affordable apartments to better the quality of life for the families and elderly who live there. Saving affordable housing is the essential first step in solving our nation’s housing dilemma.

Activities

The National Housing Trust is the only national nonprofit engaged in housing preservation through real estate development, lending, and public policy initiatives.

To safeguard affordable housing, the National Housing Trust:  

• educates policymakers of the need to dedicate resources towards the revitalization of existing affordable apartments;
• partners with investors to raise the capital necessary to buy and renovate affordable apartments that are deteriorating or at risk of being converted to market rate; and
• provides early money to developers to help them purchase and renovate affordable apartments.

Impact

To date, NHT has:

• Helped to save more than 22,000 affordable apartments in 41 states.
• Preserved more than 4,800 affordable apartments through real estate development.
• Helped to save nearly 5,000 affordable apartments through lending.
• Helped to save more than 13,300 affordable apartments through technical assistance.
• Made loans totalling more than $8.7 million.
• Leveraged more than $1 billion in financing.