Sandy Rollins

Sandy Rollins is the Executive Director of the Texas Tenants’ Union. She has more than 35 years’ experience working with individuals, groups, and policymakers to protect and advance tenants’ rights in Texas and to preserve and improve federally subsidized housing. She has served as a trainer at numerous housing conferences, including the Texas Poverty Law Conference and the National Low Income Housing Coalition Conference.  She regularly testifies on tenant/landlord issues before the Texas Legislature and has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives’ housing subcommittee on the preservation of HUD-assisted housing. She won the National Alliance of HUD Tenants’ Outstanding Service by an Organizer award in 1999, 2003 and 2010, a Houser Award from the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service in 2017, and a civic award from the Dallas Peace Center.  She serves as a board member of the North Texas Fair Housing Center and is a member of the Dallas County Behavioral Health Housing Work Group.