Help ensure adequate HUD funding
[we have received this via email and are happy to publish it. Please note that the timeline necessary for taking action is today, April 12...]
It appears that one of our most vulnerable populations (people with significant disabilities) is at great risk of losing a substantial amount of funding for housing related activities. Please note the April 12th time line for notifying your Senators.
Action Alert: Help Ensure Adequate HUD Funding - Call Your Senators by April 12!
Senators Herb Kohl (D-WI) and Gordon Smith (R-OH) are circulating a letter to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury, the Judiciary, and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and Ranking Member Christopher Bond (R-MO), urging them to reject President Bush’s proposed budget cuts to HUD’s Section 202 Elderly Housing and Section 811 Housing for Persons with Disabilities Programs.
Their letter asks appropriators to fund the Section 811 program at $240 million and the Section 202 program at $750 million in fiscal year 2008. The President’s proposed fiscal year 2008 budget suggests a $112 million cut in the only federal program that builds new units of accessible and affordable housing for low- income people with significant disabilities.
WHAT: Contact your Senators and ask them to sign on to Senator Kohl’s and Smith’s letter BY APRIL 12th!
Tell the Senators’ staff that if the Senators wish to be added, they can contact Cherie Wilson (cherie_wilson@aging.senate.gov) in Senator Kohl’s office or Mike Smith (mike_smith@aging.senate.gov) in Senator Smith’s office.
To determine contact information for your Senators, go to www.senate.gov, click on the drop-down menu in the upper right-hand corner (“Find Your Senators”), and select your home state.
WHEN: NOW!! Senators must sign on to the letter by THURSDAY, APRIL 12!
It appears that one of our most vulnerable populations (people with significant disabilities) is at great risk of losing a substantial amount of funding for housing related activities. Please note the April 12th time line for notifying your Senators.
Action Alert: Help Ensure Adequate HUD Funding - Call Your Senators by April 12!
Senators Herb Kohl (D-WI) and Gordon Smith (R-OH) are circulating a letter to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury, the Judiciary, and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and Ranking Member Christopher Bond (R-MO), urging them to reject President Bush’s proposed budget cuts to HUD’s Section 202 Elderly Housing and Section 811 Housing for Persons with Disabilities Programs.
Their letter asks appropriators to fund the Section 811 program at $240 million and the Section 202 program at $750 million in fiscal year 2008. The President’s proposed fiscal year 2008 budget suggests a $112 million cut in the only federal program that builds new units of accessible and affordable housing for low- income people with significant disabilities.
WHAT: Contact your Senators and ask them to sign on to Senator Kohl’s and Smith’s letter BY APRIL 12th!
Tell the Senators’ staff that if the Senators wish to be added, they can contact Cherie Wilson (cherie_wilson@aging.senate.gov) in Senator Kohl’s office or Mike Smith (mike_smith@aging.senate.gov) in Senator Smith’s office.
To determine contact information for your Senators, go to www.senate.gov, click on the drop-down menu in the upper right-hand corner (“Find Your Senators”), and select your home state.
WHEN: NOW!! Senators must sign on to the letter by THURSDAY, APRIL 12!
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