My name is Isabel Weir, and I just finished my last week as a research intern at NLIHC during the summer of 2021. During my time at the Coalition, I worked closely with the research team on emergency rental assistance, tracking program implementation and program spending and helping with qualitative research on direct-to-tenant assistance and Tribal nation emergency rental assistance. I particularly enjoyed learning from program administrators about the innovative ways people are preventing evictions and getting help to those most in need.
Next year, I will be a senior year at the University of Pittsburgh as a mathematics-economics major. I hope to continue pursuing my passion for universal, affordable housing in my last year as an undergraduate and after I graduate college.
I want to thank everyone I worked with this summer. It was an incredible opportunity to work with and learn from such passionate and hardworking people who are making a real difference in millions of peoples’ lives. I also especially want to thank the research team for being such great mentors during my summer and helping me and teaching me so much.