April 17, 2018

Today Rep. Dina Titus of Nevada’s First Congressional District announced that NeighborWorks® America will award a total of $244,000 in grants to Neighborhood Housing Services of Southern Nevada. 

“Affordable housing remains a critical issue in Las Vegas,” said Titus. “Nevada has the largest shortage of affordable rental housing in the nation, and Las Vegas has the most severe shortage of all metropolitan areas, with only 10 affordable and available rental homes for every 100 extremely low-income renter households. That is why I have continued to support funding for critical programs, like NeighborWorks, that have had success in boosting homeownership and supporting affordable housing initiatives. As the economy comes back in Southern Nevada, our residents need a decent place to live in order to take advantage of new opportunities.”

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NeighborWorks America

NeighborWorks America is a public nonprofit organization, established by Congress in 1978 as the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation (Public Law 95-557). It supports and enhances a network of nearly 250 local and regional nonprofit partner NeighborWorks organizations that bring together residents, private-sector business leaders, and representatives of local government to create communities of opportunity. For 40 years, NeighborWorks America has supported local solutions to community development and affordable housing in urban, suburban and rural communities in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico by providing NeighborWorks organizations financial and grant support, training, technical assistance, organizational assessments, technology tools and other services.