National Housing Trust Fund Action Alert 4/27/10
| Bishop Murphy, Chairman of the USCCB Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, wrote a recent letter to Congress that urged funding of the National Housing Trust Fund.
Affordable housing advocates are organizing a national effort to urge Members of Congress to appropriate $1 billion for the housing trust fund in “must-pass” legislation. Please take a few short moments to read the Action Alert below and sign your organization onto the support of this effort. See links in the alert below to deliver that message. Sign on to National Letter Asking Congress to Fund the National Housing Trust Fund NOW! |
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| The National Housing Trust Fund campaign continues to urge Congress to fund the NHTF as a way to help communities build and preserve housing for people with the lowest incomes, as well as to create needed jobs. As the next step in our campaign to capitalize the fund, the NHTF campaign is calling for organizations across the country to SIGN the following national sign-on letter:
*** We, the undersigned organizations, urge Congress to act soon to provide the initial funding for the National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF). We are requesting $1.065 billion be provided immediately to the NHTF: $1 billion to capitalize the NHTF and $65 million for project-based vouchers to couple with NHTF capital grants. The NHTF was created in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA) to address the severe shortage of rental homes that are affordable for the lowest income families, but it has not yet been funded. The President proposed funding for the NHTF in his FY10 and FY11 budget requests. In the United States today, there are only 37 rental homes available and affordable for every 100 households with incomes below 30% of their area median. A scarcity of housing that the poorest families can afford is the principle cause of homelessness in the United States. Investment in the NHTF will create good jobs. Every $1 billion provided to the Trust Fund will support the immediate construction of 10,000 rental homes, creating 15,100 new construction jobs and 3,800 new jobs in ongoing operations. We urge Congress to provide this badly needed funding at the soonest possible opportunity. ***
Can your organization join the letter to help urge Congress to action? Click HERE to add your support today. It is crucial that a large number of organizations sign on to this letter of support. Once your organization has signed, please ‘forward’ this email to send it on to friends and coworkers. Need to learn more about the National Housing Trust Fund before signing on? Click here for background information.
THANK YOU FOR SIGNING THIS LETTER TODAY! |
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