ENPHRONT'S HISTORY

     Background:

 ENPHRONT is a national organization of public housing residents.  With intense support from the Center for Community Change (CCC), the organization was established in January of 1997 under the name:  Public Housing Residents National Organizing Campaign (the Campaign).  In June of 2001, the organization incorporated under the new name – ENPHRONT.

 ENPHRONT is membership-based, resident-led and is very much about building a movement as it is building an organization. 

    Purpose:

 The purpose of ENPHRONT is to organize thousands of residents and their allies into a national activist organization that will:

 ·        Build and sustain POWER for residents of public housing.

 ·        Develop and advocate policy proposals to preserve and improve public housing.

 ·        Inspire and help resident organizations to meaningfully participate in the policy setting and governance of their housing agencies and developments.

 ·        Identify and pursue the range of resources and support which resident organizations need in order to function.

 Accomplishments:

 ENPHRONT now has affiliate groups in 46 states.  Most of these affiliates are resident organizations (site-based, citywide, statewide).  Others affiliates are non-resident groups that work on public housing issues (i.e., Connecticut Housing Coalition).  During its brief existence, ENPHRONT has achieved the following:

 ·        Publishes bi-monthly editions of the organization’s national newsletter Housing Matters.  Housing Matters is regarded by many as an effective organizing tool, and now has a circulation of 75,000.

 ·        Produced a residents’ action guide on Annual and Five-Year Plans (PHA Plans), which Congress now requires housing authorities to prepare and submit to HUD.

 ·        In collaboration with HUD and the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), conducted two Training for Trainers conferences for resident leaders.  These conferences provided 169 resident leaders from 39 states with the skills and knowledge needed to be able to train others on public housing policy issues and organizing techniques.

 ·        Regularly provides, through peer-to-peer help and through staff, technical assistance and other kinds of support to resident organizations and their allies.  The type of assistance provided by ENPHRONT ranges from training workshops on Annual and Five-Year Plans to on-site, intensive support for groups organizing around issues of demolition and sale of public housing.

 ·        In collaboration with the Center for Community Change (CCC), conducted a 10-city Monitoring Project that examined the extent to which Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) were involving residents in the Annual and Five-Year Plan process.  The findings of the project are now available in a report titled Planning for Better (or for Worse).   

 ·        Convenes nationwide meetings of resident organizations and their allies via telephone to plan organizing actions and discuss policy and legislative issues.

 For more information about ENPHRONT or to receive a copy of any publication mentioned above, please contact ED Williams at 718-634-0824 or Enphront@enphront.com.

Hot Issues & Alerts

Protect your Household members.  Has your housing authority changed the rules about who you can add to your lease as a new "permanent occupant." Have they limited the categories of people you can add to your household?

Read your Lease:

• Who can you add to your permanent household?
• Why do you need permission from the Housing Authority to add people to your household?

You have questions contact ENPHRONT at:  EnphrontII@aol.com   

Press Releases

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