WSCH
has signed on, we hope you will too.
Mia Navarro Wells
Executive Director
Save the Date for the WSCH 20th
Annual Conference, May 12-14, 2010 in Spokane, WA
Washington State Coalition for the
Homeless
PO Box 7436
Tacoma, WA 98417-0436
(253) 761-7446
FAX (253) 761-7436
www.endhomelessnesswa.org
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From: NLIHC
[mailto:memoto...@nlihc.org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 6:42
AM
To: Mia Wells
Subject: HELP US FINISH STRONG!
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BIG PUSH FOR NHTF SIGN-ON:
Closing in on 2,000 organizations and 100% of Congressional districts
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More than 1,800 organizations in 413 Congressional
districts have joined the national sign-on letter urging Congress to
support our communities by providing $1 billion for the National Housing
Trust Fund. This is an incredible show of support, and we thank you for
your work to help make the National Housing Trust Fund a reality.
We want to send the letter to Congress THIS WEEK.
That means we have just a few more hours to add organizations in order to
reach our initial goals of 2,000 organizations in all 435 districts.
(We'll continue to keep the letter open for signatures after this week, but
we want to do everything we can to pass these milestones before the first
version of the letter is made public.)
Can you help today and tomorrow? If your organization has not joined
the letter, click here to sign. 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:
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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.
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THANK YOU FOR SIGNING
THE NHTF SUPPORT LETTER TODAY!
Need to learn more about the National Housing Trust
Fund before signing on? Click here
for background information.
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