Preservation Working Group

PWG seeks to address threats to our nation’s affordable housing stock – including expiring rental assistance, conversion to market rate use, deteriorating physical and financial conditions, increasing climate risk, and inequitable housing policies – and advance solutions to protect these homes and the people who live in them. In doing so, we seek to ensure that this housing remains safe, affordable, and accessible to low-income households into the future. We advocate for strong federal, state, and local program administration and increased resources, identify and disseminate best practices, and share information that protects, enhances, and preserves existing multifamily affordable rental homes to create agency for residents.

PWG is comprised of housing owners, developers, advocates, tenant associations, state and local housing agencies, and others dedicated to the preservation of multifamily housing for low-income households. Members are expected to participate in virtual monthly meetings, participate in and/or co-lead focus groups that PWG identifies as being necessary to advance shared goals, and share information and opportunities for impact with members. As appropriate, PWG members will be asked to utilize their organization’s channels to help promote PWG news and activity.

NHT acts as the secretariat for the national Preservation Working Group (PWG), in which we convene a diversity of advocacy organizations, housing owners, developers, tenant associations, and state and local housing agencies dedicated to the preservation of multifamily housing for low-income families. 

For more information, please contact Laura Abernathy at labernathy@nhtinc.org