WE NEED YOUR HELP AS A SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ORGANIZATION TO HELP US REACH THE GOAL OF SUPPORT IN ALL CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS
(from the National Low Income Housing Coalition) In the last two weeks, more than 1,350 organizations from every state, DC, and Puerto Rico have signed on to the letter urging Congress to support our communities by providing $1 billion for the National Housing Trust Fund.
The National Housing Trust Fund campaign has two goals for this letter. First, to get as many signatories as possible; and Second, to list organizational signatures from each Congressional district in the country, in order to urge every Member of Congress to support funding for the National Housing Trust Fund. To date, organizations have signed the letter in 361 of 435 Congressional districts - a big jump in the past week!
We need your help to meet both our goals! If your organization has not signed onto the letter, click here to join. Then please forward this email to urge every organization in your network or coalition to sign on as well. Signatories can be local, state, and national organizations, including nonprofits, congregations, labor unions, corporations, and government agencies.
Here is the letter in support of the National Housing Trust Fund:
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 principal 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.
PLEASE SIGN THE SUPPORT LETTER TODAY!
http://www.nlihc.org/sign/
