From the National Low Income Housing Coalition (http://www.nlihc.org):
Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY) are circulating a “Dear Colleague” letter urging congressional leaders to include the HoUSed campaign’s top priorities in any infrastructure package.
The letter calls for:
- A major expansion of housing vouchers to pave the way toward universal rental assistance;
- $70 billion to repair and preserve public housing for current and future generations; and
- $45 billion for the national Housing Trust Fund to build and preserve new homes affordable to America’s lowest-income and most marginalized households.
Your advocacy is needed!
Please call your senators and representatives today and ask them to sign onto the Dear Colleague letter to show their support for including the HoUSed campaign’s top priorities in the infrastructure package!
Background
The Biden administration and a group of 10 senators are currently negotiating the size and scope of a potential bipartisan infrastructure package. These bipartisan negotiations, however, do not include the robust investments needed to ensure long-term housing stability for millions of households with the lowest incomes.
An infrastructure and economic recovery package is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to invest in proven affordable housing solutions – including rental assistance, public housing, and the national Housing Trust Fund – at the scale necessary.
Take Action
Congress needs to hear from you about the critical need to include the HoUSed campaign’s top priorities in any infrastructure package:
Call your senators and representatives today to urge them to sign onto the “Dear Colleague” letter led by Senator Merkley and Representative Torres in support of the HoUSed campaign’s top infrastructure priorities! Senators can sign onto the letter by contacting Matt Traylor (Matthew_Traylor@merkley.senate.gov) and representatives can sign on by contacting Christopher Jerrolds (christopher.jerrolds@mail.house.gov) in Congressman Torres’s office. You can find your members of Congress here.
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