Ford and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations Put $7.5 Million Into Efforts to Give Tenants Clout

Read the full article by Alex Daniels in the Chronicle of Philanthropy

As HouseUS works to support more tenants’ right groups, other philanthropic efforts are underway to ensure the federal money is put to good use.

Susan Thomas, president of the Melville Charitable Trust in Connecticut, is leading an effort called the Partnership for Equitable and Resilient Communities, in which nonprofit leaders will work with federal agencies to help steer the distribution of $379 billion in federal assistance earmarked for housing and homelessness through several pandemic relief acts.